All That Glitters

"Um..." Sam closed his eyes to concentrate, to try and pull the faint thread of need into something actually useful like directions. For a moment nothing happened, his mind as blank as could be, then suddenly an idea snapped into his head as if it had been thrown in there. He could see a place, a spot of ground he needed to find where something shone, glittered among the dirt. And he knew where to go. "Yes. It's...th-that way." He said, pointing up and across from them at the North-West of the Labyrinth. "I...d-don't know exactly where, but...it's...somewhere. Near there." Unawares of Remi's plans of flying, he took a nervous step towards the Labyrinth, then another. Before he knew it he was stood at the entrance, a hand gently resting on the trunk of a gnarled tree as he looked back at Remi. "It mi-might not take us..too long to get there. If we go now." Samuel At seventeen, I started to starve myself I thought that love was a kind of emptiness And at least I understood then the hunger I felt And I didn't have to call it loneliness