Chapter 3 Crystals and Ice

Jareth stared intensely into the crystal, he hadn't even noticed that his lunch was brought to him and had already gone cold. He shook his head, "Darling Sarah, what have you gotten into? How can you be around so much pain and death? Has your heart grown so cold that you can be around this much blood?" A single crystal tear fell down his pale cheek as he mourned for Sarah, His Sarah. Where was his vibrant girl who loved life so much? Who had fought for her brother so ferociously?

He looked around to make sure no one was in the room to see the tear. If anyone one, especially the goblins, seen that their oh so high King had cried, he would never hear the end of it; especially from his parents.

He could see that she has become someone who's heart had turned to ice because she had been around death too long.

"Ah, Sarah, do you not have anyone to love you, to take you away from such pain? From the horror that is death?"

He sighed and looked back into the crystal ball, just as she neared the bathtub