Prompt: "Surrender"


"And you're absolutely sure?"

"Absolutely!" came the trilled reply.

"You'd really rather risk an entire year than give in just this once?"

Sir Didymus stiffened with an affronted air. "It is vile, base, and cowardly to do otherwise!"

"Mmmm, I see," said Jareth, ending the game with a devastating triple word score involving a rather foul goblin vernacular word that included both Q and Z.

Sir Didymus gibbered at him, flabbergasted.

Jareth's smile quirked in amusement. "In the future, I wouldn't consider surrender such a contemptible option. In the meantime, enjoy guardianship of the bog for a year, noble knight."