Chapter 17

• Jareth stood inside the door and watched her silently. He didn’t have any favors owed to him from any gods that he knew of, but he more than agreed with her determination. If there could be a way to have her and have the curse broken as well, he was more than interested in finding the means.
• He studied the screen as she went to make herself something to eat. This World Wide Web thing was completely fascinating. Regardless of what questions she typed into it, it gave her answers. Of course it was not the immediate answers she wanted, and he’d had to stifle a few laughs as she had come close to growling at the list.
• He leaned over the letter board and looked down at it. Life was so quick now; no inkwells and blotters, just tap a letter button on this board and it appeared on the screen above. Simply wondrous! Miranda had taken the time to answer his queries concerning the machine. Of course, his mind still felt foggy at the very notion that one could write, no, type, a letter to another, click a button, and send it vanishing off to the person it was addressed to. A marvellous creation, indeed!