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She held up a hand reflexively. She had heard a voice, soft and female.

Jareth inclined his head, stopping to listen as well, then smiling knowingly.

"Lost, I am lost in a silent, flowing tide."

"Who is that," Sarah tried to look in direction that the voice was coming from, "where is she?"

Jareth sighed.

The voice went on.

"And I let myself be forgotten. To all sane mind I am dead.

The mad hear my thoughts and I sing in their minds."

"I wouldn't pay too much attention to her if I were you."

Sarah glared at him. "But she's suffering," she continued to search for the source of that voice, turning herself in circles, "you know who she is?"

He nodded.

"My futile existence," the voice was increasing in volume and intensity, "My eyes are bleeding! Make it all go away."

"Help her Jareth!" She turned to face him. "Why won't you help her?"

He took a deep breath, then turned and walked away. Before he disappeared from sigh he turned back to Sarah.

"I think that it would best if you go and find out that answer for yourself."

Sarah wanted to go to the woman, to comfort her, but she could still to figure out which way to go.

"Where are you? I'm coming."

"My bones will escape their fleshy prison," the voice was raw now, "oh me. Oh my."

Sarah closed her eyes.

"Bring me to you lady."

Then she was there, under the water. She started to panic until she realized that she could breathe. Just ahead of her in the water was the most beautiful, ugly woman that she had ever seen. Her image was grotesque and captivating. Her eyes were large and bright, but warped, surrounded by thick back goop. Her mouth was red, with sharp angles and sharp little teeth that appeared when she smiled. Her smile was not kind, more like a grimace. Her body was long and lean and almost impossible to make it, as it blended with the water around her.

"I am lost," the woman said, "deep in sorrow."

Sarah frowned.

"What do you need to be free?"

The woman sobbed. "Oh, we'll never be free. But you may sink with me into deepest despair. Come to me laaaady."

"Do you not want to be free?"

The woman hummed, her eyes closed for a moment.

"Free? Free? Come to me laaady."

Sarah looked up to the surface of the water. When she did the woman was upon her, seizing her body and dragging her deeper underwater. Sarah was warm, so warm, as she felt her flesh meld to the woman's. She could breathe but she was drowning. She screamed.

"Jareth, help me. Help me, please."