<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#800080">His head shook with just the hint of seriousness.  "Only if you're willing to join me in there for a few hours."  He cackled and bobbed his head from side to side, humming a tune.  Abruptly, the smile dropped as if something far too unamusing had just occured to him.  "Did your guards happen to see a rat run by them, most likely smoking a cigarette?"  For once, his voice was all seriousness, and those eyes held not a single twinkle of merriment.</span>