For being a desert the place wasn't exceedingly hot. In fact the place almost felt as though it was room temperature. The woman slid down the dune and found herself only a few feet away from the labyrinth. Though when atop the dune, the labyrinth looked like it was at least a twenty minute journey, though once at the bottom it seemed as though it would only take five. She looked over at the small bush that grew out of the mighty wall. As she approached it she noticed a wooden handle sticking out. She extended her long limb and grabbed ahold of the top heavy object. As she unsheathed it from the bush she smiled, for it was the axe. Carefully she slid the wooden handle through one of her belt loops so the head hung at her hip. She traced the side of the wall with her fingers while trying to find the entrance. When she stumbled over something, or as it turned out someone.
"Hey! Watch it!" cried the creature. He was short and stumpy, his face filled with wrinkles. The babysitter quickly freed the axe from her pants and striked a fighting position. "Hold on there." The frighten dwarf cried as he fell to the ground. Shocked by her own actions, the woman placed the axe back and offered a hand. His hand was dirty and warm to the touch.
"You must be Sarah." He said while dusting off.
"No, I'm not." She sassily replied. "I'm May." Her sweet voice returned with a smile to the old dwarf.
"Hoggle." The dwarf said while readjusting himself.
"Hoggle, as in the dwarf with jewels?" she asked remembering the tale.
"You can't have them!" Hoggle placed his hand over a sack that hung from his trousers.
"No worries there, mate." She said while returning her attention to the labyrinth. "Where's the door?"
"You don't want to enter in there, Miss." He said while picking up a can he had dropped earlier.
"No I don't want to... I have to." May placed her face against the wall, the knocked on it.
"Well the door is on the other side, it's best if you just go home now." Hoggle insisted.
"The bricks in this wall they're uneven and stick out." The girl mumbled almost to herself.
"What are you talking about?" Hoggle asked as he watched the girl rest her hands on the wall.
"I can climb this." And with that May put her foot against one of the bricks and started to climb.
"You can't do that!" the little dwarf yelled. However by the time he got close enough to do anything, May was already standing on top of the wall. "You can't leave like that!" he yelled again.
"Sorry Hoggle, but its better this way. I don't think I could trust ya after what you did to Sarah. I'm not that forgiving." The woman then started to walk off, carefully balancing her way over the top of the maze, leaving Hoggle in confusion.
Back within the castle, little Estella and Jayden lay in a shallow pit before the King in his throne.
"My dears, I think they're awaking." Jareth said while uncrossing his legs. The first to awake was Jayden, he sat up and looked around the goblin filled room, in shock. Being a logical thinker, Jayden was quick to assess the situation as a dream and started to roll with it.
"You guys sure are ugly." His blunt comment came as a surprise to most of the goblins.
"You aren't so perfect yourself." Screeched an offending scaly goblin.
"My, my, You are full of life aren't you." The Goblin King said while approaching the pit. "Tell me what do they call you."
"Jayden, but you can call me your worst nightmare! Stupid Goblin King!"
"Really, you a nightmare. Maybe for your parents. But what do you think you can do against me?" The King stated as he squatted down to be at eye level with the child. Overcome with fear, Jayden took a step back.
"Look at him!" yelled a armed goblin.
"Coward!" screeched another.
"May! May will come here and kill you! She wouldn't let us get hurt!" Jayden screamed as loud as he could. For some reason or another, the mere mention of her name gave Jareth a shiver. A part of him wanted to go find her, and the other wanted to hide away from her.
"May wouldn't do that!" Estella had waken up after the goblin King had first approached them. "May likes the Goblin King, remember?" within her tired and disoriented state Estella had spoken a little out of line.
"How would she know about me, let alone 'like' me?" Jareth asked interested on how the little girl knew so much.
"She told us the story."
"Estella, don't!"
"About the King and Sarah." Estella yawned for she was still very tired.
"How does she know about Sarah?!" Jareth was become antsy. No one should be able to remember her, let alone a non-labyrinth civilian.
Estella started to cry when the King became angry. Jayden wrapped his arms around her holding back his own fear. The king stood up and looked over at the goblins who were in the walls before.
"Well?!" he demanded.
"She sounded like she was making it up as she went." Said one.
"No, no. She should have read the book first. You did give her the book right. Right?!"
A tall goblin reached into his back pocket and pulled out a little red book.
"We, didn't have a…"
"Idiots!" The King started to pace in frustration but then stopped. "Then how does she know the story? And more importantly, Sarah?"