He had been watching her for the last couple minutes and was slightly confused. Every so often she would rub at her eyes, then push the paper she was reading farther or closer to her face. He was about to make his presence known when Hogwart appeared. Having entered from a passage too small for Sara but just right for him.
"I's gots it Sara." The dwarf said handing a small box to the mortal girl.
"Great!" She sounded relieved and happy at the same time.
"Sarah what's it for?" The short man questioned curiously. She opened the tine box and revealed two circles in glass held in an arrangement of metal. She placed it on her face, it being help on by her ears and the top most of her nose.
"Glasses, I need them to read and when I don't use them I get headaches." She shrugged at the look the older man was sending her. "I'm not perfect, along with wonderful attributes of my attitude that scare off my peers I am slightly troubled with my eyes. Though these." She moved her 'glasses' around slightly. "Are quite common in the aboveground.
"But yous not old?"
"What does age have anything to do with it? I've known kids to wear glasses all their life. I need them for reading, not much more than that. Others need them to see anything at all." She pulled the dwarf into a friendly hug and smiled. "Thank you Hoggle, I've never missed these things so much. I'd kiss you but I don't know if we'd end up in the bog again." She chuckled lightly and he frowned. She was his and she would rather associate with a dwarf than him. (Sound like spoiled brat syndrome to me)
"How is your progress coming Sarah?" He questioned, bring the attention to him.
Jerking her face to the direction of the cultured voice she felt her heart drop. This could be trouble. "Just fine thanks now go away." She snapped standing up and moving to her pile of papers. Looking to her work she noticed her scribbled notes. Thankfully all about the work he had assigned her on, not the ones on plants that were eatable and which ones talked and what would kill you and so on.
"What are those absurd things on your face?" He questioned, she moved her face to avoid him taking them off her.
"For starters their mine." She growled seeing the flare in his eyes at her attitude. Poor Hoggle could only move aside and hope not to be dragged into their argument.
"Nothing is yours Sarah, everything you have is mine." She narrowed her gaze at him in hate and clutched the table. She would not launch the books at him. He'd most likely dodge them and she would have to reorganize them.
"There are certain things that you could never take from me Goblin King, no matter what you do." She knew she had trespassed on to dangerous grounds with that retort and was almost sure she was willing to take the punishment that would ensue. Her breath caught in her throat when he stepped near her. 'Maybe I went too far.' She thought looking to his enraged eyes. 'Nah.'
"You haven't eaten since yesterday Sarah, I think I will keep it that way until you apologize for your behavior." She didn't change expressions at his threat.
"I'm quaking." She hissed looking him straight in the eye. "Trust me on this one, that threat is useless on me." It was true; she had pushed Karen too far once and had been banned from food until she apologized. A week later she had been hospitalized for mal nutrition. In fact, she never had said she was sorry for that. 'So in what world will this punishment work now?' He stormed out after that.
"Yous haven't eaten?" Hoggle asked taking in the thin frame of the girl. Now that he looked he saw that she was slightly thinner than when she had entered the Labyrinth.
"Yeah, haven't been hungry for the most part. Last night he tried to stuff me with more food than I could eat at the best of times. Needless to say I didn't finish my plate. He said I couldn't have anything to eat until dinner today. I guess he just extended that indefinitely. Karen tried the same thing."
"How long did yous last?"
"I had to go to the doctors. They thought I was anorexic." At his obviously confused face she elaborated. "That's a mental illness when someone thinks their fat and stop eating. I'm not, I was just being starved." She grinned and he could see the mischief in her eyes. "My room is full of hidden snacks, I'm nearly always munching on them because I can't choke down Karen's cooking." She tilted her head slightly and winked. "I better get back to work, I have a lot to get done and I want to finish as soon as possible." He could tell she was up to something but thought it best not to ask. Then he would have no answer to give when asked. Shaking his head he left for his own dwelling.
'That girl is trouble.' He thought. 'No wonder Jareth is smitten with her.' He knew the king held an affection for the mortal in his own way. But he had screwed up any chance with her from the beginning, and she was not one to let people near her in that way. He could tell. Didn't know how he knew but he did.
What do you all think? Finally an update I know. Anyway in the next chapter she escapes. I already have it written so its only a matter of getting enough free time to type it. I got called into work about four hours early today so I'll be away from my baby (the computer) for a little over NINE hours probably closer to ten. Any way REVIEW.
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