1 April
Today is payback day. I sneaked in super early before it was light. Jareth got me last year, so this year I'll get him. Hoggle helped 'cause he is taller. We balanced the bucket of chicken feathers and spiderwebs we gathered in the crown shaped thing over his throne. Then we put a tug wire under the cushion. It will tip all over him when he sits down. We went to lie in wait in the upside-down room. Jareth took ages to come to his throne room. He was singing and swinging his crop everywhere. The goblins ran out of the way. He sat down to sprawl out in his chair. The bucket tipped. The spiderwebs caught the feathers all in his hair. It was brilliant. Until Jareth summoned a crystal. He can look back in time. Uh Oh.
Hoggle and I only made it to the first turn in the stair. He appeared in glitter before us. His hair was spiked with spiderwebs and chicken feathers. We laughed. It was too funny. We laughed so hard. We couldn't even think up clever words to get us out of trouble.
Jareth got that mean look in that eye that screamed 'bog'. I made a crystal before he could and Hoggle and I vanished. Only I don't know where we vanished to.
We were still in the Labyrinth, but not a spot Hoggle recognized. I was too tired to make another crystal to make us go back. It took absolutely ages for us to find our way out. We landed on the far side of the Fiery forest, not even Hoggle's been that far.
Jareth came to find us twice! Only he didn't come anywhere near us, he just left goblins to make us get more lost than we already were. It didn't work the second time when we could see the castle and the goblins tried to point us to the bog. Hoggle and I then had a plan. If Jareth wanted to go to the bog we would go. We went and visited Sir Didymus and got a stick and a bucket and got the teensiest bit of bog water. It was so stinky we held the bucket right on the end of the stick.
Hoggle knew the best ways to sneak up to the castle in the tunnels. No one wanted to come jump out at us with the bucket, they all yelled at us for making the tunnels stink. We made it to Jareth's private john, and tipped it in. It's gonna be bad, no matter how much air freshener he uses.
It was sunset by the time we walked back to the front gates of the castle. Sarah was waiting for us at the top of the stairs. She just laughed at us for trying to prank the Goblin King. Apparently, he is king of pranksters. That makes me prince of pranksters!
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Dad had to call the plumbers the next day 'cause our john stopped flushing and flooded instead. Eeew. Why do I always forget Jareth can rewind time?