He followed and remained standing when they reached their destination. "Not about Hier," he said immediately. If it had been about the mage, he wouldn't have gone to Miliona first - he hadn't even been aware that there was a connection. "It's about your father. May want to sit."
He waited until she decided what she wanted to do and then continued. "I'm afraid that your father has been murdered." No easy way to deliver that news, and while he knew objectively that the person in front of him probably had no idea what a fucking scumbag he was, he still couldn't bring himself to care.
There was also no way to sugar coat he looked sliced up and his throat was slit by saying found dead. Besides, the word murder tended to make people begin to think about who the fuck could have done it. And while Jareth wanted to thank whoever offed the bastard, he was bound by law to investigate it. Even if he thought that it was better calling it a day.