Chapter 4
"Hoggle!" Sarah cried in relief.
"Sarah?" Hoggle said quietly, "What are you doing back here, certainly you haven't wished away another child, and what in the underground is that thing attached to your leg?"
Sarah looked down, "It's a cast, used to mend broken bones…" She whispered.
"What has happened to you?" Hoggle asked.
Sarah fell to her knees, "Oh, Hoggle, it's terrible, I would have been better off staying in the underground with you, Ludo, and Sir Didymus, but no… I had to save Toby and take him home. For a year now my stepmother has been trying to kill me… I don't truly know when the last one was, for that I'd have to know how long I've been unconscious… She pushed me off of my balcony in the middle of the night… she wouldn't have done so had she know that I had Toby in my arms… the very next thing I know I'm here… in Jareth's castle, and now I am heading towards the elves realm, on the other side of the maze, I need your help in getting me there…"
Hoggle looked at Sarah, "It's been so long since I've seen you… my have you grown, Sarah…" Sighing Hoggle went to the door that Sarah only knew was there from her previous stay in the oubliette, "But alas, you don't know the rules of being wished away, the one who made the wish must come to rescue you, must want you to leave this place…"
Tears rose in Sarah's eyes, "So that's it then, your only here to take me back to the castle?"
"Sarah you must understand that your being back here for a second time isn't just a mere coincidence… I believe that you are the one chosen to save the underground from crumbling."
"Hoggle, what are you talking about?" Sarah asked quietly.
"When the moon rises purple the whole of the underground will be destroyed, unless before then the goblin king manages to change his ways and fall in love… otherwise all the beings, not just the goblins, in the underground will be destroyed." Tears glistened in Hoggle's eyes, "Sarah, none of us wants to die and if you are still down here you and the child will be destroyed as well… you must save us from the death that is already bearing down on us, there is so little time… one week is all we have before-"
"Hoggle stop!" Sarah cried, "Don't speak of death… Look, I'll do this for you and the others, NOT for Jareth, I would regret leaving you all here to die because of my own selfishness… lead me back to the castle…"
When Sarah saw Jareth's leering face she wanted to just forget the deal she'd made with Hoggle, every instinct told her to run, to leave this place far behind, realizing how many creatures she'd let down in doing so, she hung her head in a partially defeated way. Her heart and sole would not allow defeat, she was here on a mission, and once completed she'd make sure Toby got out of the Underground safe and sound… to be found laying in his own bed, for herself she'd somehow die, she would never be able to go back with her stepmother trying to convince everybody that Sarah had tried to kill herself and Toby, neither could she stay in the goblin city, with Jareth and his selfish life, she would run to some remote place, and never be seen by anybody again.
Well, that's the next chapter, let me know what you think. Until next time….