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[tomoveyourstars]

Nervous, are you? Sensible of you, my dear. You should be.

[The Goblin King lounges as carelessly as ever, crystals darting about within the confines of his fingers. What is happening here is decidedly Not His Problem, no matter where he ends up in the end.]

But I daresay you know just as well as I that such a thing ought never keep you. Whatever would you do without the challenge? Which is precisely what I am here for, after all, so I do believe you've chosen well. As to the others --

[Quite suddenly, he isn't where he was. A slight wind rustles through feathers.]

-- they really matter very little, no matter what you believe. Make your own story, girl. Move your own stars.

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[13hours]

Advice from the Goblin King, huh? [ so unsure. ]

[tomoveyourstars]

-- my. If it isn't dear little Toby, all grown up. Have you still got my eyes, Toby...?

[13hours]

[ a huff. ] I never had your eyes in the first place, Jareth. [ jareth's are a little, er, striking. ]

[tomoveyourstars]

Oh, I daresay you'd have grown into them. Given the chance.

[He regards the boy almost fondly. Of course Jareth will have another go at toying with him, given another chance. It's just what he does, and now Toby is old enough to decide things for himself. What a grand game it could be.]

[summersword]

[Ildi makes a face.]

They're always nervous. 'S a human thing.

[tomoveyourstars]

[Jareth chuckles in reply.]

This one sports streak of arrogance that any of the fae might admire. It's a pity, really.

[shoulda_toined]

Dat's da problem wid dese muns--dey don't tink deir story's woith tellin', so dey borrow ours.

(Beat.)

I don't blame 'em, dough. Not everybody gets ta be a talking cartoon rabbit-slash-hare who doesn't wear pants.

1/2 -- I lol'd

[tomoveyourstars]

[What a strange person.]

2/2

[tomoveyourstars]

[-- oh well.]

Her rather comical disdain for trousers aside, I daresay I agree. The girl is bored, despite all she already has. It will be her undoing, I should think.

[Jareth is not bothered by this. Such things happen to someone, somewhere, every single day, and he has lived a lot of days indeed.]

Bugs has that effect on people :)

[shoulda_toined]

Eh, da good ting is, dey're also easily amused.

(Beat.)

I can get mine ta laugh just by sayin' "shenanigans" and wiggling my eyebrows.

(Shrugs.)

Muns are weird.

(Says the half-dressed anthoropomorphic cartoon animal with a disdain for the Fourth Wall.)

:Db

[tomoveyourstars]

This one is a trifle more picky, I'm afraid. Her tastes lie more along the lines of terrorizing other characters and razing settings to the ground.

[Probably this is why the Goblin King here is not complaining.]

[knight_king]

I do not disagree with the last counsel, though other people do matter.

[ Only a tyrant would disregard those around them. ]

[tomoveyourstars]

Oh? So much so that the opinions of the rabble should be permitted to dictate the actions of the queen?

[Jareth is all for preventing the peasants from revolting, as revolutions are inconvenient and require effort to dispatch and are, by and large, not amusing. However, he is also not so big on democracy -- or on hesitating to write for fear of perceived imperfection.]

[knight_king]

That is a tyrant's reasoning. [ No better than Gilgamesh's raving ideas about kingship. ] The king is the servant of his people.

[tomoveyourstars]

The king must be stronger than his people. Elsewise, there is little point in having one.

[In any case, it's not like Jareth isn't a tyrant. And in those instances when he is the precise opposite -- well, he feels no need whatsoever to speak up about that. He has no reason at all to prove himself in this.]

[longunderthetree]

Move your stars? Those are words to be recalled when circumstances are bleak.

[tomoveyourstars]

And only then? Oh, perhaps all the time, I should think.

[longunderthetree]

To move stars is a great endeavor, surely?

[tomoveyourstars]

It is that. But anyone capable of wielding a Goblin King ought to be able to manage it, hmm?

[labyrinthsolved]

Nice to see you're still pulling tricks at least.

[tomoveyourstars]

[Ahhhh, one of the ones who got away. If Jareth has any hard feelings over Sarah's victory, he doesn't show it now, greeting her with a smirk and perhaps a bit of a flounce.]

But of course, my dear. When there is something you ought to be doing, you can't do much else but do it, don't you agree?

This is what happens when you have two Sarah journals.

[labyrinthsolved]

Definitely. I don't think any other line of 'work' would suit you.

[notmygoblins]

And here I thought that ego of yours couldn't get any bigger.

[tomoveyourstars]

Oh, I live within several different infinities, my dear; there is always room.

[notmygoblins]

All of us live within several infinities if this place is involved. Not that specially, really.