Chapter 10

Sarah and Hoggle pushed through the revolving door as quickly as they could. The dwarf almost made the mistake of continuing to go around as the door turned. Sarah saved him from that predicament by continuing to go forward and dragging him along by the hand.

Quickly righting himself Hoggle sped up in order to avoid having his arm pulled out of its socket. Sarah seemed oblivious to Hoggle's struggles to keep up. Her fear made her blind to everything but escape.

Hoggle allowed Sarah to pull him along until they reached a distance he thought was safe. Planting his feet firmly he wrenched his arm away from Sarah's hand. Backing away and rubbing his wrist Hoggle took a second to catch his breath.

"Enough, Sarah" he said. "We got away."

"What are you talking about, Hoggle?" Sarah asked in a panicked voice. "We can't stop, it's right behind us!"

"We got away" he repeated. "We lost it."

"How do you know?" she demanded.

"I've been avoiding it for a while now. Think, Sarah" he said. "It doesn't move as fast as us. It's easy to out run as long as you have somewhere to run. Who said it knows where we are now? For all it knows we turned left after the door. Take a deep breath and use your head."

Sarah did as Hoggle said and took a deep breath. She tried to clear her mind of her fear and think logically. Hoggle's right. It's slower than us so it can't be right behind us. We had to have put some distance between us. Sarah pause as another thought crossed her mind.

"Hoggle…You kept saying 'it know' like the fog's aware. That's not possible."

Hoggle just sighed. "Sarah, it's the Labyrinth. Anything is possible. You've seen fairies and goblins and you've smelled the Bog yet you have trouble believing in a fog that's alive?"

"But it doesn't have a brain!" She exclaimed in disbelief.

Hoggle just snorted. "And goblins do?"

"Hoggle, I'm serious."

"So am I. It doesn't have to make sense, Sarah. It just is. You live in a world where logic and technology rule. That's not how the Underground works. Logic doesn't make sense here. If it did, goblins wouldn't be able to drink as much as they do, Didymus wouldn't be able to stand the Bog, decapitation would kill the Fireys, and glitter wouldn't look good on a man. Why should living fog be any different? Just stop holding on to your human logic. Believe that anything is possible like you used to. Can we change the subject now? I swear it knows when people are talking about it. "

Ending the conversation Hoggle walked over to a piece of ground spotted by large flat stones. Lifting a stone by its edge Hoggle peered under it. Not seeing what he wanted he dropped the rock back into place and walked to another. Repeating the process he started grumbling as he still didn't find what he wanted.

Sarah watched Hoggle's actions with amusement. "What are you doing?"

Hoggle continued on as he answered. "I'm looking for a specific rock."

"I sorta figured that. What's so special about it?"

"It's…Aha! Found it!" Hoggle shouted in triumph.

Curious about what had Hoggle so happy and what was so special about a rock Sarah quickly walked over to Hoggle and stared at the ground in surprise. Under the rock was a hole. A very dark hole.

"Well climb in" a cheerful Hoggle said.

Sarah just stared at him. "I'm not going down there. It's dark and there's probably spiders."

Hoggle snorted. "Have you ever seen a spider in the Labyrinth?"

Sarah thought about it. "Not that I can remember." It was strange. Even the oubliette didn't have spiders.

"Jareth doesn't like spiders. I swear that's why he kept the chickens in the castle. He's not particularly fond of the fowl creatures" he said chuckling at his joke.

Sarah groaned and hung her head. "Lame, Hoggle. Very lame."

Hoggle sniffed in offense. "Not my fault you don't have a good sense of humor. The goblins would have loved it."

"And what did you say about goblins not having brains?" Sarah asked sweetly.

Hoggle glared at her and just pointed sharply at the hole. Sarah laughed and sat down at the edge of the hole with her knees dangling over into the darkness.

"Just how deep is it?" she asked in trepidation.

Hoggles reply was to thrust his arms out and give her a surprise push. Sarah was swallowed by the darkness as a shriek escaped from her. Hoggle chuckled evilly. "Revenge is sweet" he said before giving a nervous look around and jumping into the hole. The rock that hid the entrance slammed back into place covering the hole and their trail.

Here's chapter 10. Not much happened but we did learn something about the fog and also that Jareth is afraid of spiders. Can anyone else imagine Jareth seeing a spider and shrieking like a girl while standing in the middle of his throne while pointing and yelling at the goblins to kill it? It might just be me.