1 Part 3

Sarah had been working hard for several hours, so she took a well-deserved break. She settled herself down on several old cushions that she had discovered and all of a sudden she felt a wave of tiredness come across her.

"Must have worked longer than I thought," she said through a giant yawn.

She looked down at the silver watch on her wrist. The watch that had once belonged to her mother.

"Five thirty, I'm home alone for another three and a half hours"

Her father had taken the rest of the family out with friends. He had asked her if she wanted to go, but she really wanted to get this finished today, or else she never would. So she turned the offer down and went back to work. Now she lay back onto the cushions and closed her eyes, very soon she was sound asleep dreaming of the Labyrinth and Jared.

When she awoke the room was dark and moonlight flowed into the room through the skylight. For a moment she was dazed and didn't know where she was, then she remembered she was in the attic, yet something didn't feel right. She kept her eyes closed for a second, trying to discover what was different, remembering what the room was like when she left it. Suddenly she realised something, she didn't put a blanket over herself, yet she could feel something covering her, she opened her eyes and saw a blur of a minty green silk over her, then she realised it was a dress, one of her costumes that she used to play with.

Something shining across the floor caught her eye, she pulled the dress off her and sat up, a crystal was rolling along the floor towards her.

"Jared" she thought.

As the crystal rolled closer she picked it up, thinking that when she looked into it, it would show her her dreams but instead, looking back at her was not her dreams but more of her nightmares looking back.

"I must go back," She said, looking once again into the crystal.

"But what if it's one of Jared's tricks?" She asked herself

"But I can't risk it, I can risk loosing them!"

And once again she looked into the crystal and saw the scared faces of Ludo, Hoggle and Sir Diddymus crying out for her.