"Half-elf," Puck responded, "However, in response to your question, yes elves do live here." He pulled Norma further into his embrace, smirking at A-M as he did so. A-M turned away to face Boromir.

"Let's just leave them for a few, if she doesn't get this out of her systemwell I would hate to travel with her the rest of the way."

Boromir chuckled, "Some things never change."

They walked a distance allowing the couple to have as much privacy as possible.

"So, A-M, is it?" Boromir looked thoughtfully at the person in front of him.

"Well, that is just a nickname, people are too lazy to say the whole thing"

"Oh really?"

"It's Anne-Marie."

"How very, human."

"Not surprising, considering I am."

"I would have thought, living in a land of magic like thiseveryone else, even your friend Norma, have their special abilities."

"Nope, I am normal. I don't even live here, in fact, I don't really like to come here that often."

"Normal? Some how I doubt that." He smirked.

"Hey!" A-M smacked Boromir's arm lightly. At that he threw back his head in out right laughter. Joining in with the laughter A-M didn't notice how well a moment carefree of the weight of the world looked on him.

"You wouldn't have any more of that, chocolate?" Boromir asked as their laughter subsided.

"Ummlet me check..." she rummaged in her pockets again, handing him various things that came from the pockets of her oversized windbreaker.

Boromir looked curiously at the things she had handed him, Strange female,'

he mused to himself.

"If you don't have any"

"No, I am positive I have some." She rummaged a little more, "A-ha!" the rumpled bag of M&Ms was thrust in Boromir's already filled hands, he watched in amazement as she put it all back in her pocket, still looking as if she was carrying nothing. A-M took the bag from him and dumped out some.

"Hey, there aren't any green ones"

"You know, this chocolate is really quite good, perhaps I can take some back with me?"

"If we run into a candy stand we will grab some." A-M laughed.

"Do you ummthink that they arewell, finished?"

"They could go on indefinitelybetter just cut them short and take our chances"

"Oh."

"YeahHey Norma!" A-M shouted over her shoulder where she had left her friend. A-M thought she heard some giggling. A-M rolled her eyes at Boromir.

"Lady Norma, if you please, we have limited time, and this is my life."

Boromir shouted impatiently.

"Don't make me get the fire hose Puck!" Slowly two figures could be seen emerging from the depths.

"Dear Muse, you really are a wet towel on my fun." Puck pouted.

"So sorry, but I am on a quest here." A-M gestured to Boromir.

"Indeed, a quest' is that what you call it these days?" Puck smirked down at Norma.

"If that's the case, then I think Puck and I need to go and ummquest some more"

"Norma!" A-M stomped her foot. "Please, enough, I don't think Jareth sent you here torture me, wait never mind, that makes complete sense, he did send you here to torture me. ARGH!"

Jareth watched in amusement as Norma's muse cursed him and his mother. "I knew she was good for something, really I think I will have to make her mad more often, especially if it prevents her from writing her demeaning." Jareth grinned wickedly.

A-M stopped her rant short as a poof of glitter swirled in front of her.

In fact, she nearly fell over at the shock of the Goblin King's sudden appearance. Boromir blinked, while from a land of some considerable magic, only recently had been more exposed to it, and never is such a flashy manner. This Goblin King was a new breed to him all together.

"Anne-Marie, you should know better than to use my name in such a manner."

Jareth could barely keep his laughter in check, tormenting Norma's muse was just too much fun. "Still bothering my godchild, Trickster?" Jareth faced

Puck, whose face bore a lazy smile.

"Only if keeping her hot and bothered is what you mean dear Goblin King," Puck laughed out at Jareth.

"And you Man of Gondor, what do you think of my Labyrinth?" A-M nudged

Boromir.

"Don't say it is a piece of cake," she whispered in his ear.

"Huh? Piece of cake? Your majesty, I find it quite different than another place I have traversed. I cannot say overall how I find it though, for the adventure is not yet finished."

"Well, said." Jareth turned to face A-M again. "So you think my mother smells of wild elderberries, do you? Well, why don't we see what you think of this smell,hm? " With that he disappeared and before A-M could figure out the obvious meaning, she along with Boromir and Norma were falling down hole, the earth beneath them, seeming to have disappeared. Puck made use of his ability to defy gravity and looked on as the rest fell down the shaft, screaming in shock.

Boromir landed first with a loud thump, Norma landed on top of him, knocking the wind out of him. A-M landed last and nearly rolled into the Bog of Eternal Stench, having been thrown farther than the other two.

"Ack!" She bounced up, missing the Bog by inches; biting her tongue from cursing out Jareth again, she walked towards her companions. Norma was the first to recover.

"So, is that the Horn of Gondor, or are you just happy to see me?" she blinked innocently at Boromir. A-M burst out laughing but stopped immediately having inhaled a lung-full of bog gas.

"Here, Norma, let me help you up," A-M said in a muffled voice, extending the hand that wasn't covering her nose and mouth. Norma's muse swiftly pulled her to her feet; A-M then extended her hand to Boromir as well. He looked at her a moment, startled at the offer, but not wanting to offend her he placed his large rough hand within her smaller smooth hand. Her grip was surprisingly strong has she pulled him to his feet, he gasped at the smell that was in the air.

"What is that?" he choked out.