Chapter 2

Explanations

Hoggle and Sarah had shared many long conversations about his world. After Sarah arrived back in her own world she was always deep down pinning away for the beautiful world she'd spent nearly thirteen hours in; and she wanted to know everything about it. She had learnt that Jareth's Kingdom was the most small and less grand of all the Kingdoms. 'The Underground' was a nickname for the realm for it's the first world or dimension directly under the world of mortals. More specifically under the mortal realm that Sarah resided in, hence the reason that her realm had the nickname of 'Aboveground' although only to those who lived in the underground. She was suprised to learn, although after her experiences she thought herself silly to be suprised by the fact that there are countless other mortal and fae realms. It was all very confusing and Sarah did not grasp how it all worked and Hoggle could barely explain because he barely understood it himself, he only knew it to be truth.

Scientists said the Universe was endless and that there very well could be other life in distant galaxies. Sarah had originally thought that when she'd appeared in Hoggle's world that somehow she was on whole different planet where magic was the basis instead of technology and science. Hoggle had explained to her that he knew nothing of other planets and that all the realms existed in what Sarah called 'Earth' but even so they all had their different geological identity and laws of science, although many of them shared some of the same fundemental laws such as gravity. In the mortal worlds their geographical area was always spherical and took up the same space that she knew to be in her world. However in the Fae worlds this could be different, for example, Hoggle's world was flat almost the same way they used to believe in Christopher Columbus's day. If you went past the borders you'd end up somewhere else.Hoggle also explained that a world was determined to be Fae or mortal not by which it was more populated by but how much magic inhabited the realm. Mortal realms always had very little or none at all, but there were some Fae realms that were not inhabited by a single fae yet great magic resided there.The two did not spend much time on these topics because it gave them both excruciating headaches.

Sarah learned that magic was a sort of science as well, just much different then the sort her world knew.She learnt also that 'Fae' did not necessarily mean fairy, at least not in the same meaning that her world had given to it. Fae simply was a term used to discribe those who are immortal. Immortal also did not mean utterly uncapable of dying either. There are different species of Fae and each specie has different races much like humans except the color range could be much broader. Hoggle said that racism did not exist but there were those who felt they were an elite species. There was also a hierarchy of power among each specie and among fae in general. The 'fairy' that bit her during her first visit to the Labyrinth was at the end of the ladder while Elves were in the middle and Jareth's specie among the top. Again she was suprised to find that Merfolk and Unicorns were a specie of Fae while Centaurs and Dwarves were not, although they did live a deadfully long time anyways. She was equally suprised to learn that Hoggle himself was 927 years old according to human time and 309 in Fae time, a day in the fae realm was equivalent to approximitly three days in the mortal realm. The Goblin King had not been joking when he said he had reordered time. Although 309 let alone 927 seemed ancient to Sarah, Hoggle was the equivalent of a 40 year old for dwarves. Sarah's jaw had droped even further when she learnt that the Goblin King himself was a mere 19,994 years old in fae time, and for his species among the youngest in existance. Sarah rarely asked questions that concerned the Goblin King himself directly.Hoggle from the beginning had warned her not to invoke his name, he said he didnt know what might happen but it probably would be good. He warned that it may give him just enough power over her to be able to play his tricks. What she did know other than his name and title was his age and that he'd only been ruling the Labyrinth for only 9,994 of his years. She had only ever refered to Jareth as "you know who" since then.

The realm that Hoggle lived in was officially called Farra Sollys ny Heayst which meant Land of Moonshine. Hoggle assured Sarah that if she were ever back in his world during twilight she would understand. The realm consisted of eight kingdoms not including the Goblin Realm and the unclaimed and unwanted wastelands in the north. To the utter west lay the Kingdom that belonged to the Centaurs,Reagh Thalo-farra. East of the Centaurs kingdom lies a long and dangerous mountain range, The mountains of the west and a small portion of valley land belong to the Dwarves, they call their Kingdom Lught ny sleityn. Allin Keayn is a large sea that lies to the central south, this large sea makes up the Kingdom of the merfolk, whose beautiful palace lies deep beneath the waters and has been seen by very few. The last 5 kingdoms and united under one King, these kingdoms as one is called Thanvaanit. Two of these kingdoms are primarily inhabited by elves. The rich valley that lies in the center, the realm of the High King is inhabited by a species of fae called Cas shaylobree. Hoggle discribed them as one of the most powerful fae specie, directly under the merfolk who are only less powerful than the ascended ones. The ascended ones, look much like the wee fairy that had bit Sarah. However they are tallest of all the fae races, their wings have a span of twenty feet when fully expanded. They however can also take on the form of pure energy and light. The ascended ones live wherever they please and do not necessarily answer to anyone, the ascended fae are good in spirit although they tend to meddle in the lives of others. The Cas Shaylobree are shapeshifters, beast shape shifters to be exact. Every fae of this race has a natural animal that they easily fall into,once they learn to control this aspect of themselves they can learn to shift into other forms. They say a Shaylobree's natural animal usually reflects upon their character. Sarah realized at once that this was Jareth's specie but she laughed at the idea of a wise and beautiful owl reflecting the Goblin Kings true character. The last kingdoms were inhabited by the Nyemshir and the Ferrish. The Nyemshir were less powerful than the Shaylobree but that had a unique knack for controling the elements. Hoggle didnt have much to say about the Ferrish, basically they were Fae but there wasnt much special about them. They had magic abilities but were less powerful than elves, they were not much more powerful than a mortal.

Out of the pleathora of information she gleaned from Hoggle over the years, the best thing she learned was how minor the Goblin Kings position was, sure he was a King, he was a powerful fae but his realm wasnt very important at all. She gloated over the fact that his arrogant highness was stuck in a dingy castle surrounded by blithering idiot goblins and that he was so small in comparison with the grandeur of the world he lived in.