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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!!!! I need encouragement peoples!! Thank you.
Oh… this a short one because well… I know how I want things to happen, it's just that our Quiet Intermission decided it had to be written first.
Chapter 11: A Quiet Intermission.
The land of the Fae is saturated in magic, to the Kingdom's of the deep Gnomes and dwarves to the highest peaks of the Eerie the land seeps it. Morning took a stroll across the land, slowly filling the valleys and chasms, piling up against mountains and spilling over in waves like molten gold. Pale honey colored light seeped through trees and brush giving the land a yellow internal glow.
A mother and child walked the long corridors and twisting passages of the Labyrinth. Creatures, dangerous to any but the two females loved on their legs and followed them as they made the long haul through the labyrinth. The mother was well with child, her belly swollen and her face red with effort, the child held her hand and answered the seemingly endless questions with a distant voice.
It had been years since they walked the Labyrinth. They had often when Annie was much younger, taking the girl on her back like a papoose and traveling it over and over again until she knew every nook and cranny like her favorite book.
The girl was being questioned on the different races that inhabited the different kingdoms of the realm. "Dragons, Hippogriff's and Harpies,' she answered the question while studying the eyeball plant that studied her back carefully.
"Very good, and what are the three kinds of Dragon's that are generally born in the Eerie."
"Serpentine, Metallic and Gem." She answered slowly.
"All right, here's a hard one, name three types of creatures born in the sea surrounding the Eerie."
The girl looked at her sister in surprise, this was a trick she was sure. The peninsula of the Eerie was filled with high mountaintops that had been hallowed out years ago to let the Dragon Kin Fae assist the flying creatures that nested in the peaks. She could remember two easily, "Dragon Turtle's, fish and lichen?" It was more of a question then an answer but her sister nodded and accepted the answer, then handed her a peppermint out of her belt pouch. "When will the baby be here?"
"Soon, that is why we are walking the Labyrinth for your lessons this morning. I need to walk so when the baby comes it will be much easier." The woman laughed at the girl, she had made a strange face, and then wondered off for a moment to come running back.
"Let's go the Glade and walk. I want to see the meadow where the pixie's come from." She announced out of breath.
"Well, lets get Jareth and see if he would like to come with us."
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The darkness enveloped him. He had been watching them a long time when they disappeared. He dared not go into the castle for fear he would be found out. The child would come soon, perhaps in only days, he had to do something before it was born. He had managed to get a spy into the Library and read about the druidic childbearing traditions and what was revealed made him uncomfortable.
Annalisa and Jareth's child would be very powerful, and though he was sure that neither knew of the treachery that had taken place he worried that perhaps this child would bring everything to light. He found that killing the woman and the girl would be relatively easy, but the Goblin King was feared, his Goblin's were fearless and competent in battle, and nothing would stop him until his vengeful heart was satiated if they died. So, what to do.
Hilliard stole through the labyrinth like a ghost, she was oblivious to his presence.
At the plateau at the beginning of the labyrinth he stepped easily beyond the wards and then teleported to his home. There was much planning to be had, and he still had not decided exactly what to do.
He had watched her for long hours in the last few months. Since the pregnancy was confirmed and announced. He had found that it was easy to spy on her with his crystals, but preferred the more direct approach.
Calling Lord Byron to him he smiled his friendly grin, "I have a plan. This one will work to be sure."
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!!!! I need encouragement peoples!! Thank you.
Oh… this a short one because well… I know how I want things to happen, it's just that our Quiet Intermission decided it had to be written first.
Chapter 11: A Quiet Intermission.
The land of the Fae is saturated in magic, to the Kingdom's of the deep Gnomes and dwarves to the highest peaks of the Eerie the land seeps it. Morning took a stroll across the land, slowly filling the valleys and chasms, piling up against mountains and spilling over in waves like molten gold. Pale honey colored light seeped through trees and brush giving the land a yellow internal glow.
A mother and child walked the long corridors and twisting passages of the Labyrinth. Creatures, dangerous to any but the two females loved on their legs and followed them as they made the long haul through the labyrinth. The mother was well with child, her belly swollen and her face red with effort, the child held her hand and answered the seemingly endless questions with a distant voice.
It had been years since they walked the Labyrinth. They had often when Annie was much younger, taking the girl on her back like a papoose and traveling it over and over again until she knew every nook and cranny like her favorite book.
The girl was being questioned on the different races that inhabited the different kingdoms of the realm. "Dragons, Hippogriff's and Harpies,' she answered the question while studying the eyeball plant that studied her back carefully.
"Very good, and what are the three kinds of Dragon's that are generally born in the Eerie."
"Serpentine, Metallic and Gem." She answered slowly.
"All right, here's a hard one, name three types of creatures born in the sea surrounding the Eerie."
The girl looked at her sister in surprise, this was a trick she was sure. The peninsula of the Eerie was filled with high mountaintops that had been hallowed out years ago to let the Dragon Kin Fae assist the flying creatures that nested in the peaks. She could remember two easily, "Dragon Turtle's, fish and lichen?" It was more of a question then an answer but her sister nodded and accepted the answer, then handed her a peppermint out of her belt pouch. "When will the baby be here?"
"Soon, that is why we are walking the Labyrinth for your lessons this morning. I need to walk so when the baby comes it will be much easier." The woman laughed at the girl, she had made a strange face, and then wondered off for a moment to come running back.
"Let's go the Glade and walk. I want to see the meadow where the pixie's come from." She announced out of breath.
"Well, lets get Jareth and see if he would like to come with us."
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The darkness enveloped him. He had been watching them a long time when they disappeared. He dared not go into the castle for fear he would be found out. The child would come soon, perhaps in only days, he had to do something before it was born. He had managed to get a spy into the Library and read about the druidic childbearing traditions and what was revealed made him uncomfortable.
Annalisa and Jareth's child would be very powerful, and though he was sure that neither knew of the treachery that had taken place he worried that perhaps this child would bring everything to light. He found that killing the woman and the girl would be relatively easy, but the Goblin King was feared, his Goblin's were fearless and competent in battle, and nothing would stop him until his vengeful heart was satiated if they died. So, what to do.
Hilliard stole through the labyrinth like a ghost, she was oblivious to his presence.
At the plateau at the beginning of the labyrinth he stepped easily beyond the wards and then teleported to his home. There was much planning to be had, and he still had not decided exactly what to do.
He had watched her for long hours in the last few months. Since the pregnancy was confirmed and announced. He had found that it was easy to spy on her with his crystals, but preferred the more direct approach.
Calling Lord Byron to him he smiled his friendly grin, "I have a plan. This one will work to be sure."