Chapter Two: Dawn

True to his word, Jareth sent up a human servant with food. Although he lived in a place where you rarely saw humans, they were there. The people who lost the game that was the Labyrinth had three choices. They could stay as humans, yet be servants to Jareth in his Palace or whever he sent them. They could return to their world and forget about the child. Or they could be turned into goblins. (The last choice was rarely chosen. Most times the people were turned to goblins if they angered him.)
The girl who brought her food up to her was beautiful. She had honey- blonde hair, moos green eyes and wore a simple yet becoming gown of a tanish color. She didn't look like she should be a servant.
"Hello." She said cheerfully. "I am Dawn. I guess you could think of me as your servant: or you lady-in-waiting. I am not a slave." Although she said it simply, her tone warned Sarah as to how not to treat the girl. Girl? Woman? Sarah wasn't sure. She didn't look a day older than SArah herself.
"I'm Sarah. I know this may sound very ignorant of me, but, I thought royalty had ladies-in-waiting? I'm hardly royalty."
Dawn nearly laughed. Did this girl know nothing? "His Majesty has said that you're to be treated special-like. He said we should treat you as if you were Queen. Pardon me, buttt he told us that it would be good for ye if we did."
"Ohhh... Alright..." SArah trailed off than realized something. She didn't talk like people did now-a-days. She almost sounded like she was alive in the times of the monarchs or something. "How old are you?" Sarah asked before she could stop herself.
"Oh.... I'm not more than 17 phisicaly. Yet I've been here for quite a while now... Atleast a century... I think...."
"Really?" Sara asked shocked. That was not the answer she had been looking for.
"Yes'm. And His Majesty has told me that you'll be wanting a hot bath, tea, and a nap be for too long now." She told her. And by the sudden change of Sarah's mood, Dawn could tell that Sarah thought badly of His Majesty at the moment and didn't give a damn about what he had known she would want.
"So what is all this?" Sarah asked, observing the assortment of foods that had been brought to her. Some of them looked familiar, others did not and were very new to her.
"Oh... Names aren't important... You've been told how long I've been here and I still don't know what everything is called. These, I do know. And so should you. They're from Earth." The food's she was speeking about were carrots, brocoli, freench fries, soda pop, and oreo's. The rest of the food looked odd, yet wouldn't brocoli look odd to someone who had never seen it before? There was a bowl of a grey-ish blue substance that reminded Sarah of pudding. A Glass of something red that looked very much like it wasa type of wine. A bowl of things that looked like croutons (you know the crunchy bread things you put on salad? I'm sorry i can't spell and I don't have a spell check.) but smelled of garlic and butter.
"Wow... and I'll bet theres a whole lot more types of food here..." Sarah half exclaimed.

"Yup..." Dawn told her simply. "And after you've eaten would you like to bathe?" she asked.
"I guess so... I don't think I'll have anything else to do... In fact I'll have nothing to do for quite sometime."
"Well, His Majesty did say you're allowed to explore, yet you can't enter the roomsa you get a bad feeling about.And we do have a library. A very large one infact. I'd bet that you could find just about any book in there from any where ever made!"
"Alright. I may have to look into that area some later."
"So now I'm sure you'd like to be lfet to your food in peace. I'll just take my leave."
"Actually... There's a lot of food here. I couldnt possibly eat it all by myself..." She trailed off.
"Would you like me to ask His Majesty if he's like to dine with you?" Dawn asked. She knew perfectly well what the girl wanted. She just wanted to see what her reaction to that would be.
"No, no, no." She said quickly, hastily even. "What I meant is... If you'd like to... You could stay and eat with me..."Sarah said meekly. She wanted to avoid Jareth. When she argued with Jareth earlier and had realized whe would have to stay, a part of her was given a start, and was filled with some odd emotion. Sarah knew she had felt it about people before. But she couldn't be feeling like she actually liked Jareth. Could she?
"Oh.... Alright. I'll stay with you and eat." Sarah had slightly suprised her. Although Dawn knew that the girl was going to ask her, she didn't think she was actually wanting her to say yes. That she just didn't want to be alone. She may be a servant and not a slave, yet not many people had actually treated her like a civilized person. She was up with the times and knew much more than many normal people.
"Thank-you." Sarah said. And she meant it too.Maybe the three months here wouldnt be so bad. She'd have a friend atleast. Even if she did have to put up with Jareth and his tricks, which she knew he would pull.
So they ate the food, talked about some very useless things.They laughed and beforethey knew it all of the foods they had liked were gone and they were full.Dawn helped SArah draw her bath, telling her that drawing her bath and many other simple chores would be Dawn. Sarah would dress herself, of course, and would do several other things as well. Just none of the major chores. Jareth wouldn't allow her to do anything that a Queen wouldn't do.

A/N: So what did you think? Is it good? I know i didn't have 3 reveiws but i had the extra time and was bored. That's what you get from a bored 14 year old blond (ME!!!!!) sooooo yeahhh.... Ok u guys this time i really wont update w/ out 3 reveiws! and i mean that! so plllzzzz reveiw even if u dont like it... u can tell me how to fix it!