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Chapter Three
"I hate you!" Sarah screamed at Toby when she got to Karen and her father's room. "I hate you!"
Then Sarah saw Lancelot lying on the floor beside Toby's crib.
"Somebody save me! Somebody take me away from this awful place!" she begged to no one in particular.
Toby continued to sob, and soon began screaming. Sarah's head snapped up when she heard this, and immediately she was at the crib.
"What?" she asked Toby, trying to use a mocking- tone, though it no good. "You want a story?"
Sarah stopped for a moment and pondered. What could she tell him that would make him stop crying? Maybe she could scare him to being quiet.
"Okay," she started, "once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl whose stepmother always made her take care of the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and he wanted everything for himself, and the girl was practically a slave..."
Sarah stopped for a moment, proud of herself for finally getting Toby's attention. What should she say next?
"But what no one knew," Sarah continued, her magnificent blue eyes sparkling, "is that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl. And he had given her certain powers...
"Then, one night, when baby had been particularly cruel, and the girl was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother, she called on the Goblins for help..."
Sarah broke into an evil grin. " 'Say your right words,' the Goblins said, 'and we'll take the baby away.' But the girl knew that if this happened, the King of the Goblins would take the baby, and keep him in his castle forever and ever and ever."
Sarah's grin faded. "So the girl suffered in silence."
As soon as Sarah finished her sentence, Toby broke down again, and the screaming filled the entire house.
"Oh, all right, all right!" Sarah gave in, picking the crying Toby out of his crib. "Stop it! Stop! Or else I'll say the words!'
But what Sarah didn't know, is that deep in the darkness of the underground, where all nightmares live, someone was listening.
"Listen!" one of them said to the others, causing all them to hush.
"No, no I mustn't." Sarah told herself. "I mustn't say..."
"Did she say it?" one asked, breaking the silence.
"Shut-up!" they all whispered angrily.
"I wish, I wish..."
All the Goblins held their breath, waiting anxiously for her next words.
"I can bare no longer!" Sarah finally announced. "Goblin King, Goblin King, wherever you may be take this child of mine far away from me!"
All the Goblins groaned in unison.
"Where'd she learn that rubbish?" one asked, thoroughly annoyed. "It doesn't even start with 'I wish'!"
Toby continued to shriek and cry, angrily.
She couldn't stand it anymore. "Oh, Toby, stop it!" Sarah fumed as she put Toby back in his crib, and tucked him in. "I wish the goblins would come and take you away."
She trudged over to the door. "Right now." she hissed as she flipped off the switch.
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