A week before her birthday, Sarah was busy rereading the letters send by Orpheus. The more she received, the more she wanted to meet him. She received the last one this morning, the letter was indicating that she would be able to meet her admirer the day after her birthday. He was suggesting a walk in the park near her home, this was perfect her parents wouldn't suspect a thing she'll just have to take Merlin for a walk.
Finally she would be able to prove that Orpheus wasn't Jareth, she felt a little bad after her last encounter with Jenny, they fought and haven't talked since but, she had gone way too far. After revealing her admirer to her parents, she actually tried to contact Jareth by wishing her away, of all the stupid things to do! The fight that followed was the hardest they ever had but as much as she wanted to forgive her friend, she couldn't close her eyes on the fact that Jenny almost doomed her to a life as a goblin.
Someone knocked at the door "enter", the door opened slowly and Jenny shyly stepped in the room.
"What do you want jenny? Do you try to set me on a date with blue beard?" sneered Sarah.
"I'm sorry"
"Oh"
"Sarah listens, I know I've gone too far, I mean even if the goblin king like you…"
"Which he doesn't" pointed Sarah
"Yeah, but IF he does, you would still have the right to choose whether you want to be with him or not, I shouldn't have pushed you to contact him, I'm really sorry please stay my friend" with those words Jenny offered Sarah a small silver bracelet.
"oh Jenny that's not necessary of course I forgive you"
"Yeah but I insist, it's for telling your parents about Orpheus, I'm really reaaaaally sorry Sarah"
"Fine, but it's only because it's so pretty"
"I'm glad you like it, put it on and after you could tell me all about the letters and Orpheus"
Sarah blushed a deep red "he's coming in a week; I'm so impatient» she reached and slided the bracelet around her wrist.
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Doraemoon winced discretely and excused herself from the room, once in her bedroom, she reached for the mirror wishing to see Sarah; she was sitting with the bouncy blonde talking about Orpheus? The princess focused on magical energies and noticed an aura coming from the bracelet, when did Sillia learned such a spell. It was crafty and once transferred to his victim, it cannot be removed, she was too late. She concentrated more and found a crack in the spell, not enough to remove it but maybe enough to alter it.
It was a transfer spell not an attack spell by definition, that's why her protection charm didn't work, set to activate at frontier day to transport Sarah to Doraemoon' s room. So she would be framed for Sillia. She closed her eyes and used the tiny crack in the spell to plant a spy spell that would alert her when Sarah is transported underground.
Knowing that, the princess assumed that Sillia wanted to transport Sarah here to mark her, then use her as a lever to become goblin queen, frontier day was the perfect moment for that.
After many abductions of mortal centuries ago, the kings and queens of the underground released a powerful spell forbidding unauthorized interaction between aboveground and underground. They, however, set a window for such contact that they called frontier day, the day after their eighteenth birthday the mortal could choose to lose any contact they may have with the underground or being marked by a fae, thus allowing them to stay in contact. The mark isn't proof of a possession but an identification of who authorize you to contact the underground, said fay having total control on those contacts.
So Doraemoon just have to distract her sister to mark Sarah first, but what about her debt to her sister, if she opposed her, Sillia will probably run to their parents to tell them that it was Doraemoon's fault if she had lost her sight, they will never forgive her for that just as Sillia never forgave her. No action would ever redeem herself after that, but, Sillia promised that she would be forgiven after she was crowned queen of the goblin, so she just have to find a way to help the mortal without her sister or Jareth noticing. But was it really worth it?
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"So?" Jenny gasped startled turning to the mirror where princess Sillia was looking at her expectantly.
"I did it! I told her that it was a reconciliation present and she took it, she's already wearing it"
"Perfect, still it was odd that the wish didn't work"
"Maybe being a champion made her immune" answered jenny hesitantly
"Yes probably, I should look more closely into those champion privileges"
"So, why are you helping me?" jenny shifted on her seat not wanting to anger the pretty woman in front of her.
"Why, but I just want to help Jareth, you're Sarah's friend right? Well I'm Jareth's he is so gloomy since Sarah left, he spends all his time in the library writing her letters."
"That's so sad, don't you worry princess as soon as the bracelet activate we will just have to help them communicate about their problems and bam, happily ever after." Jenny was radiating conviction, Sarah will be pissed at the beginning but she'll thank her later. She just knew Jareth was Orpheus.
