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    /spanspan style="font-size:14"Disclaimer:  Jim Henson owns all rights to Labyrinth, and it's his, not mine.  Most characters in this story are Jim Henson's.  They don't belong to me, so please don't sue. 

     Chapter 1: Gone

     'Yellow.  I think she would look nice in yellow', Sarah mused as she held up the baby sleeper.  She looks to the side, smiling at her baby sleeping angelically, hoping that no on in the bustling crowd of shoppers would bump the stroller and wake her.  Her pregnancy had been uneventful enough, although it had concluded in a full 26 hours of excruciating labor.  But that was 9 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days ago, and there she was, lovely, perfect, and even more so because she was now asleep.  Jadyn.  Sweet little Jadyn.  Child, if you only knew how hard it was to take care of you. 

      'Orange.  Orange is O.K., but it's way to large, it's huge.  It's about 6 times too large.  Wasn't Ludo orange?  Not to mention huge.  Now, where did that come from.'  She tosses the sleeper back.  Not much room for a huge, orange rock caller in her every day world. 

       'Pink.  Not really crazy about pink.  She has enough pink clothes as it is.'  'Blue.  Blue is too boyish, and for some reason it reminds me of a small worm.'  She had a vision of a small blue worm crawling around the house, and Sarah calling, "Jadyn!" and Jadyn saying back, "No, I'm a just a worm."

       'O.K., the yellow one.  I wonder if it's going to fit?'  Sarah turned to hold the sleeper against the sleeping child, to check the size, and gasped.  The sleeper dropped from the fingers of her extended hands, and draped across the front bar of an empty stroller.  For a full, 4 seconds, she stood frozen in a combination of first, disbelief, and then, a slowly rising terror.  She tried to speak, she wanted to scream, but first she uttered only a cross between a pant and a sigh.  Gathering her prescence, her eyes dart fervently about the store, she looks left, she looks right, her eyes flash to the sales counter, where a lady clerk is putting a purple sweater into a blue and white shopping bag. 

        At the end of 8 seconds, she heard herself scream.

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