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Shattered	By : TarnishedArmour Category: G through L > Labyrinth Views: 7713 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: Based upon the work of Jim Henson; specifically Labyrinth, copyright 1986 by Jim Henson & associated parties. I do not own or have legal rights to Labyrinth, etc., or make any profit from them. *Individual disclaimers for other works in

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Yancey left in the morning, relieved that the temptation of Sarah was gone when he woke. He had accepted additional rations from the Lady, along with a necklace for his wife.
"For the woman who knows a true heart," she said, smiling as he stammered his thanks. "Tell her to wear it well for you. She is from Pass of Fools. She will understand."
"Thank you, Lady, for this and everything," Yancey managed, dazed by his good luck. He left after breaking his fast and preparing for the snow and wind. When Yancey had gone, Sarah turned to the Lady with a curious expression.
"The Pass of Fools has some peculiar customs, my dear. The one I invoked is one that will make them both very happy, very fertile, and help them stay very much in love." She walked back into the main room and turned to Sarah. "I have reviewed your actions, Sarah. You have passed the first two walls of my lands."
"Oh," Sarah said, surprised into a blush. "I hadn't realized…what were these walls, Lady, if I may ask?"
"Your silent endurance of the trials you were given, though they weren't supposed to be so…interesting. That was the first. The second, though, is one few have ever managed well. You gave so much to the village that they accepted you as their own. You've no idea how rare that is. Generations can pass before newcomers are accepted, and you managed in less than a dozen sunrises."
Sarah blushed harder. "I would have liked to do more," she said, thinking of all those she hadn't been able to help.
"And for that alone would you pass the wall." The Lady fell silent for a long while.
"Lady, may I ask a question?" Sarah asked. It seemed like she was saying that a lot, but it was how she remembered not to complain.
"Of course."
"What is the third wall?" Sarah was completely baffled by these "walls" and how she was managing them. There seemed to be no rhyme nor reason to them, no system. The walls for the Outer Lands had been intensely painful, pleasurable, and simple. This land seemed to lean in a different direction altogether.
"Ah." The Lady smiled at her and nodded. "The third wall is also passed," she said. Taking mercy on the girl, she said, "Accepting with a grateful heart that which comes to you unasked."
"Lady, I asked Jareth to forgive me-" Sarah began. The Lady cut her off.
"But you did not expect it. Unasked is a poetic conceit, not the perfect denotation for what is meant. 'Unexpected' has too many syllables to flow properly." The Lady had the air of a frustrated artist about her.
Sarah blinked. Then she shook her head and laughed. "Lady, I hadn't considered that. 'To endure in silence' and 'to give unstintingly' both have the same ring to them."
"And well they should," the Lady sniffed. "Why do you think I wrote them that way? Come, now," she said, rising. "There is much to be done, and you are going to do the running back and forth for me."
"I'll be glad to, Lady," Sarah said, her heart oddly light. Whatever this may bring, it was certainly not going to be dull.
Sarah spent the day fetching handfuls of focus stones for the Lady to inspect and watching as she worked. It was fascinating. Sometimes the lady would literally shudder and toss the stone across the room, uttering imprecations for the person who had dared slip something so inferior into her delivery. Others she would sigh and a blissful smile would come over her face. Those stones were placed in with others of the same type in whatever drawer or bowl or cabinet she indicated. Still others would be dropped into what were deemed student bins, large urns filled with various gemstones, denoted only by the size of the stones themselves. There was no other sorting for these unrs, and the Lady explained the point was to get the students to call one of the stones to them, determining their focuses.
"Lady," Sarah asked during a break, "the stones Jareth uses-"
"Are nothing that comes to me here." The Lady said nothing more, and her attitude did not encourage Sarah to ask.
Sarah nodded, not understanding, but willing to wait and ask the horse himself. It was late in the evening when the Lady finally called a halt to their work. They had long since worked through the stones sent by the village on Granite Mountain. Several other mines sent their offerings to her at the same time each year. They had worked through the two packs from Granite Mountain and four more.
That night, while Sarah slept in the room Yancey had used the night before, the Lady walked in to watch her sleep. Smiling softly, the Lady placed her diamond on Sarah's forehead. Sarah frowned in her sleep briefly, but then relaxed.
"A gift for thee, Sarah Joy," she murmured, pulling hard on the magic of the labyrinth. "I open that which within thee lay dormant for so long--the magic of the realm."
The diamond flared for a moment, then went quiet. The lady slipped out of the room as quietly as she had entered.
Sarah slept on, untroubled.
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A/N: Please forgive me, but I could take dozens of chapters to write Sarah learning the magic she had been given. I have chosen to spare us all the drudgery (and that's exactly what it would be) and gloss the mundane, zeroing in on the most important sections. I've tried to do that throughout this fic, but, since I'm going to gloss more here, I decided I'd give you all a heads-up. Thanks for reading, and, if I haven't said it before, thanks for reviewing.
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