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Chapter Three: Hesitation
Sarah threw herself onto her bed and beat her pillow furiously. "Damn you Justin, how could you do that to me?!"
With angry tears streaming down her face she rolled over to sit on the edge of her bed. "Jareth!" she called again and in a shower of glitter he was once more there beside her.
"Don't worry Sarah, come with me" and he held his hand out to her. She immediately grasped it and they found themselves in the throne room once more.
"I have something very special to show you this time Sarah" he said as he led her out to the garden.
The Garden was massive, stretching out far and wide so that Sarah could not see its end. The sky was a deep, dark blue that seemed to cover the whole garden in its blanket. The moon lit up the sky, large, golden and full surrounded by a million tiny stars.
All that could be seen of the garden were hundreds of golden flowers, the same shade as the moon that sparkled in bloom and broke the endless blue reflection of the night sky.
Jareth led them both to an ornately carved bench and beckoned her to sit. When they has both sat down all of the flowers began to open and tiny balls of light rose up out of them and flew upwards to dance in the sky like stars.
Sarah laughed and marvelled at their wonder and then suddenly one flew at her to hover in front of her face. It looked like a tiny little girl with white-blonde hair, pointed ears and wings.
"They're sweet little faeries aren't they" Jareth breathed next to her.
The faerie suddenly glanced down at Sarah's hands resting on her lap and flew downwards to land upon them. Sarah gasped and hurriedly pulled her hands away, recalling the last time a faerie had sat in her hands and bitten her.
"Don't worry Sarah, these faeries are my own. They are not wild like those you encountered before."
Gingerly, Sarah replaced her hands on her lap and the faerie knelt in them touching the flesh of her fingers as though in wonder. It tickled and Sarah laughed which made her shake and the faerie momentarily dizzy, causing it to keel over onto its side which made both her and Jareth laugh.
Finally, the faeries returned to their flowers and after kissing Sarah's finger, her new friend followed. The flowers closed upon them and like lights in a city turning off one at a time, faded to look as they had before their inhabitants' moon dance.
Sarah yawned and then the pair rose. She walked a few steps over towards the castle door and then spoke, "Well I had best be going now Jareth, take me home please."
Silence caused her to turn to look back at him. His face looked stern and his mouth was a thin line. "Jareth!" she repeated. After a few seconds he sighed and then walked towards her and took her hand.