Title: The Labyrinth: The Way Back
Author: Aviry Nolane
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Date: 1/25/2011
Notes: shorter chapter, but hopefully a fun one! There is a lot more to come, but stay tuned because the action starts now! Please r&r if you love me
Chapter 5 - The Underground at 9am
Twenty minutes later Sarah Williams the polished executive tossed a bulky handbag onto her desk in the restaurant office. Now calmly sipping a cup of black coffee that had been thrust at her by a merciful assistant, Sarah took a deep breath.
Someone was getting a raise.
She nodded silently as the entertainment manager reviewed the days schedule and idly chattered on about how well things were going.
Sarah continued the bobble-head routine until the woman presumably got bored enough to leave.
It was then that she pulled the cramped form of her childhood aberration out of her purse and placed him on her desk.
"No luck, Didymus?"
The small animal shook his head sadly. "No, fair Lady Sarah, try as I might I cannot will myself back to the Underground."
She let a moment pass for the irony of the situation to sink in, and dejectedly sank her head to the cool wood of the desk. He had tried several times to return home in the seat of her Mercedes. There was not even a slight indication that anything he had tried had even almost worked.
She tapped her pencil against the rim of her coffee cup and desperately tried to conjure a solution. The truth was; her day was getting a tad out of control. Sarah was no longer proficient in the ways of intra-world time-space-or-whatever travel, and she was becoming less and less proficient in getting through an hour without some absurd optical illusion bursting into her trusty white-bread life.
She stopped commiserating long enough to ponder why the room had gotten so silent.
When she looked up, what she saw terrified her.
Didymus lay on his side, his diminutive body convulsing sporadically as his form flickered in and out of view. She reached for a paw, but found that her hands passed right through him.
He groaned audibly, hands outstretched to her, though she could not hold them. Tears filled her eyes as she stood watching, powerless to help.
"My… Lady…"
He had given up.
Terrified, Sarah did the only thing she could think of to save him.
"Jareth!"
