Chapter 1 – After the Ending
Sarah sighed deeply as she leaned back in her chair and rubbed her eyes. She stared up at the dark ceiling, taking a small break from the bright computer screen in front of her. This was the 12th application she'd filled out this week. It's a nice compliment to the 10 applications she sent out the week before, she thought sarcastically. It had been half a year now and she still couldn't find a reliable job. She felt the pressure of needing a job. After all, her "inheritance from a rich uncle overseas" was starting to run low. Maybe she should take Hoggle's advice and just move to Mystiania, the world where the Labyrinth was part of. She sighed to herself yet again. This line of thinking brought up another frustration, what to do about Hoggle.
The relationship that Hoggle and she had built over the years was complicated to say the least. It was Hoggle that had kept her world together when her parents and brother had died in a plane crash, just a year after her journey to the Labyrinth. In her second year of college she had been unable to find a job to work with her going to school and was quickly running out of money. It was Hoggle who had sent her jewels that she was able to, with the help of a law major friend, have appraised and sold for enough to give her the years of college and after without having to think, much less worry, about money. Hoggle had been there for her through everything. Sarah knew that she loved Hoggle and she knew that Hoggle loved her, but what happened beyond that point. Well, that part was so complicated she didn't know where to begin.
After the fall of Jareth many things had changed in Mystiania. The passages in and out of the Labyrinth had been opened to the wider world once again. Mystical beings of all types and sorts were able to go in and out the Labyrinth, something that hadn't been possible for years. Peace came back to the land, well for the most part, trade and travel became the norm and the area around the Labyrinth became a bustling city. With the roads safe again, letter carriers and post offices reopened. Everyone, including himself, was greatly surprised when Hoggle received a letter from his family, asking him to come back, at least to visit, his homeland. He had begged to make the trip on his own, but Didymus and Ludo had insisted on coming with him. Even Sarah had been able to come along, since the planned time was during her summer break. It was during that trip that Hoggle had to make a startling confession…
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