Ch8 Meeting the Goblin King
The door closed behind her leaving only one way for her to go, she felt herself beginning to get worried again so she once again started singing quietly,
"Take the wave now and know that you're free,
Turn you back on the land face the sea,
Face the wind now so wild and so strong,
Think of me, wave to me, and send me a song.
Don't look back when you reach the new shore,
Don't forget what you're leaving before,
Don't forget when your missing these souls,
Love must never hold never hold tight but let go.
O the nights will be long,
when I'm not in your arms,
but I'll be in the song,
that you sing to me across the sea
somehow someday.
You'll be far away so far from me,
and maybe one day I will follow you,
in all you do,
till then send me a song.
When the sunsets the water will fire,
When the winds swells the sails ever higher,
Let the call of the bird on the wind,
calm your sadness and loneliness,
and then start to sing to me,
I will sing to you if you promise
to send me a song.
I'll walk by the shore and I hear,
hear your song come so faint and so clear,
and I catch it a breath on the wind,
and I smile and I sing you song,
I will send you a song
I will sing you a song
I will sing to you if you promise to send me a song."
Cara could see the end of the tunnel, as she was about to go through it she heard a voice speak "Truly lovely voice."
Cara jumped slightly and turned around to see none other than Jareth, the Goblin King himself, standing to the left near the exit. She was certain he hadn't been there before but there he was.
"Thank you," Cara said softly as she blushed not only from the compliment, which was something she wasn't used to to begin with, but from seeing him up-close, he was very handsome which only made his compliment more surprising to her.
"You're quite welcome," he said staring at her "You seem to be doing very well at my labyrinth."
"I think I'm doing alright but what exactly am I doing here?" Cara asked, "And why did I fall out of the sky?" she wondered, Jareth started to walk closer to her as she spoke.
"Don't you know?" he asked smiling slightly, Cara shook her head and his smile grew "I simply did as you asked," He stated "You asked for your sister to be taken so I took her." Jareth was now very close to Cara looking her in the eye holding her in an almost trance like state which only caused her to blush deeper. "Also," he continued "YOU asked to come here. I heard it, your silent wish to come here and see this place." Jareth reached his hand out and brushed a stray lock of Cara's hair back behind her ear.
Cara held her breath slightly; she certainly wasn't used to having someone this close to her, least of all a handsome goblin king.
"By the way how are you enjoying my labyrinth?" Jareth asked.
Cara was able to come out of her trance enough to speak "It's very challenging and quite interesting," she replied causing Jareth to smile once more.
"Good to know," he said now moving away from her, Cara quietly let out her breath "You should find your friends through there but be careful they may get you into trouble, they don't seem to be as lovely a person as you." Jareth smiled as he saw her blush again.
Cara walked by him, holding her breath again because of how close she had to walk by him, into a strange place like a garden, with statues, a stone chair that looked like books, and other exits all around a circle but she didn't see Sarah or anyone for that matter. Cara looked back to ask Jareth what he meant but he was gone, she sighed and walked into of the middle of the circle. As Cara looked around trying to figure out which way to go she heard what sounded like some stone sliding of something and someone speaking, and she knew whose voice it was, "That's it. I quit."
