Gnarl screeches and throws himself toward the floor. Covering his head with his arms as the stranger’s sphere pops releasing a swarm of glowing flakes that….<br/><br/>The old goblin stands his mouth opening and closing in a rather good impression of a fish before his scales turn a dark shade of hunter green in a goblin’s version of a blush. Setting off the new frilly pink dress he was wearing quite well.<strong>“I… You!”</strong>He sputters looking around helplessly. He marches toward the dais and snarls.<strong>“Majesty please,”</strong>he begs.<br/><br/>Jareth merely glances at his steward with a sigh.<strong>“Gnarl go and fix yourself up. Really, you do look ridiculous.”</strong>As Tania lays out her terms Jareth ponders the riddle she is presenting with a wiry grin, his steward’s predicament already forgotten.<em>I want your Kingdom and everything in it as my own. Yourself included.</em>Sitting back on his throne the Goblin King begins to laugh. Softly. Within moments his laughter builds until it echoes across the chamber and is soon joined by various cackles and chuckles of his minions hidden from sight in nooks and crannies. Gnarl snarls as he trudges past her before cringing at his master’s laughter. As soon as the old goblin is out of sight the sound of tearing fabric can be heard; along with various colorful curses in the goblin tongue.<br/><br/><strong>“You,”</strong>Jareth begins between pauses for breath.<strong>“Intrigue me. You offer much yet ask for everything in return.”</strong>With a Cheshire grin he leaps from his throne and begins to pace back and forth in front of her. Occasionally glancing at her in passing as he thinks about the offer she has purposed.<br/><br/><strong>“And just how do you plan on granting this prize, eh?”</strong>He says stopping finally.<strong> “Sarah’s love uncoerced by magic along with my chosen heir. When they are beyond even my reach now?”</strong>The thought of having them both back in the Underground sets his mind to plotting. Even without this stranger's riddle the chance to win Sarah a new and tempt the boy into taking his place so that he could be free of his duties to the goblins for a time. So great a prize indeed! Like a man dying of thirst offered a glass of water he already was willing to accept any price for the woman's offer.<em>Especially one that she can never collect on. For to be truely happy,</em>he smirks stroking his chin.<em>I have to be who I am. Lord of my Labyrinth.</em><br/><br/><strong>"What are your terms of this bargain? Would they be harmed?"</strong>He asks suddenly at the realization that he knows nothing of this particular Fae. Aware that many of his own kind felt little value in the lives of mortals.<br/>