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I would like to add one quick note or this chapter might be a little confusing. The name Sarah means princess, I looked it up in several different places. If anyone wants to know about the baby name site I use, let me know and I will send it to you or add it to my profile.
Cahira could feel a change in the magic that surrounded her; she knew that the ring had come back. It had been so long since she had felt such power, that lust for the feel of powerful magic was very strong and that temptation was coming back. Cahira had to fight that lust, it was now costing her a kingdom and could cost her more very soon. If the ring and its bearer had indeed come back to the Labyrinth, then she needed it to come to her in order to save her people, her kingdom, and something else. She knew that Jareth was coming to visit her; he had told her so but had left out several details about why he was coming and if he was bringing anyone or anything with him. Cahira could not respond to his message, she dare not use the magic it would require. There were others who could contact him, but she did not want them to get false hopes or anything. She just summoned some servants and told them to prepare two rooms in her private wing for guest and that more might need to be prepared, but to begin with only two. Cahira walked to her window and looked out at her kingdom slowly going to waste, she was loosing the war, Jareth and the ring were her the only thing that could save her people and pull them out of this hell that she had inflicted upon them with her greed.
It had been years that she had been battling this Nightmare and its minions. It was her greed that lead her to this place and it would be her greed that would hopefully save her. Giving the ring to the little girl had been a foolish action, but Cahira had loved her so. It wasn't expected, the child was just a way to acquire more power but her sprit was so pure that she charmed her. They would keep in contact until the day she died, Cahira felt that a part of her had died with her that day. Cahira loved the child so much that she promised a queen, but instead she bore a spoiled brat. Cahira laughed and said that the baby was too much like her, it would have to be another child because this one was not capable of being a queen. Another child would be born years later, a grandchild and this one was pure and worthy of being queen and so Cahira influenced the mother with what to name the child, her name would mean princess, for that is what she would be. The princess did not have a great life, her mother abounded her and her father was not quite sure what to do with the little girl that reminded him so much of her mother. Cahira had watched her and together with the girl's grandmother, once her prized child that she gave her mothers ring to, the two went out and Cahira used magic to make the match to her bother's mirror appear in the store they were in and the princess feel in love with it. It was not too long after that the once small child, now an old woman, died.
The princess should have arrived in the Labyrinth, the time was correct and Cahira could feel the shift in wild magic, it was wild magic that controlled the mirror and several other things in the Underground. The ring was passed down and Cahira could almost feel the power that it contained, if Jareth had any sense he would make sure that as soon as the princess came back he would place that ring on her finger. It contained power by itself, but only it bearer could wield that power, but other could try.
So Cahira sat by her window looking out at her shattered land and praying that when Jareth came he would bring Sarah and she would be wearing the ring on her finger in order to keep both her and the ring safe.
Back in Labyrinth, Jareth prepared his kingdom for his upcoming absence. In his chambers, sitting in a delicate silver and ivory inlaid box containing his mothers ring. Sarah was on her balcony holding another silver box pondering on whether or not to open it now or find Jareth and demand answers. She almost wanted to leave it in her room just to spite him, but she was far too curious as to what it contained. The box opened to reveal a royal purple velvet lining and a silver pendant that took her breath away. It was a silver owl with its wing outstretched and in its claws it held a staff with a tiny crystal on the end of it. It took her breath away. She carefully picked it up and placed it on her neck the walked over to the mirror to admire its beauty on her skin. Sarah learned it was magic when she noticed that the small crystal kept changing colors, but it somehow made her feel safe. She decided to change out of her night clothes and in to something more suitable for a walk in the Labyrinth, she had told Hoggle that she would visit him later that day. Little did Sarah know that there were others outside the Labyrinth who knew she was there and they viewed her as a serious threat, one that would have to be taken care while she was away from the Goblin King and his influence.