Jareth paced back and forth in his throne room. His gaze shifted towards the window overlooking the labyrinth.
Sarah hadn't emerged from her garden yet, and Jareth felt he was imagining things, but it seemed that several goblins were making their way through the labyrinth towards Sarah's garden. At this moment, Jareth began to regret that he had given up all his power in her garden. What he wouldn't give to know what she was up to right now.
He turned and sat down in his throne, trying to rationalize with himself. Alright, so goblins seemed to be heading towards Sarah's garden. Perhaps they were curious? Maybe she made more friends than Jareth thought. There were more options than the ridiculous idea that she was rallying an army to oppose Jareth. The idea made him laugh out loud.
A goblin knocked softly on the door to his throne room. "Yes?" Jareth called, inviting the goblin to open the door and state its business.
"Does Your Majesty still want dinner?" the poor goblin squeaked, afraid of a Jareth that had locked himself up for several hours.
"Ah, yes. Dinner. How soon can it be ready?" he asked the goblin.
"Ten minutes?" the goblin said, proposing a question to the king hoping it would suit his needs.
"That sounds wonderful. Have a servant sent down to Sarah's garden and ask her to join me for dinner," he dismissed the goblin and looked up at the ceiling of his throne room. He was sure that if he could just see Sarah that all doubts would be erased from his mind.
Jareth paced his throne room several times before going down to the dining hall. To his delight Sarah was already sitting at the table, waiting for him. He shook his head to get rid of his worries, how could this wonderful human sitting at his dining hall table be plotting against him? She was the definition of perfection in Jareth's eyes and he could not think a bad thought about her, seeing her seated so calmly at his table.
"Have a nice day in your garden?" Jareth asked casually as he sat down at his chair.
"Yes, thank you again, it's quite a lovely gift," Sarah blushed slightly and turned her head towards the door in anticipation for food.
"Don't mention it Sarah, it's my little peace offering to you," Jareth eyed her as the food was brought in by goblins.
Sarah smiled and their attention was momentarily taken from each other to the goblins serving them food. As much as Jareth tried to teach them otherwise, goblins were sloppy by nature and tended to drop food in your lap if you did not keep constant watch on them.
Jareth was thinking of another conversation piece while being served and was about to try to strike up another conversation when Sarah surprised him and broke the silence.
"I hope you won't feel the need to present me with anymore 'peace offerings'," She smiled slyly at Jareth and watched his reaction over the rim of her goblet.
"What makes you say that? Was it too grand?" Jareth raised an eyebrow, trying to fully comprehend what Sarah was trying so very hard to imply.
"Well, no, it is rather nice. It's just, well- what I am trying to say is that… there is not any need for more offerings of peace," Sarah bit her lip and furrowed her brows as she tried to get her meaning across.
"Are you saying Sarah that you are willing to forget past wrongs and be on friendly terms?" He tried not to let his excitement overly show, inside he was jumping for joy, but he kept his cool as best as he could, letting large smiles escape his control.
"Mmm, not necessarily forget, but try not to dwell on the past so very much. But, I would like to on friendly terms with you Jareth, I want to try to be friends and to get to know each other better," Sarah smiled widely at Jareth, a smile that warmed Jareth to the bone to see.
"Thank you Sarah," Jareth quietly said. He would have said more, but he couldn't begin to think of where to start.
Jareth and Sarah finished their dinner in peaceful silence. After dinner Sarah excused herself to go to her room, agreeing to consider Jareth's offer to meet him in his throne room a little later.
Jareth found himself pacing in his throne room again. He hoped that Sarah would at least send down a message if she could not meet him. He felt much better after their small dinner conversation, and after being able to see her. Jareth had thought long and hard about the prophesy that had been delivered to him. He decided not to linger over it, and that he should go ahead with acting as he would have had he never read it. From his experience prophesies tended to muck things up more than help determine the future.
Jareth had turned towards the window to look out at the Goblin City, when he heard the door open. He turned quickly and immediately lit up when he saw Sarah enter the room. He crossed to meet her.
"I'm so glad you decided to come down, Sarah," He said sincerely.
"So am I," Sarah smiled "What did you have in mind to do when you asked to meet?" she inquired.
"I was hoping you might be interesting in visiting the Goblin City library. It has all the books in my kingdom inside, I know you like to read so I thought it might be an entertaining place for me to show you," Jareth explained.
"I think that sounds wonderful," Sarah enthusiastically agreed to the idea.
Jareth offered his arm, which Sarah took, and led her out of his palace and towards the Goblin City library.
