The reassurances and the touch went a long way toward stabilizing how she was feeling, but Claire found that the shift in tone was what she needed right now. There was comfort in his touch but there was experience and knowledge in that tone of voice. He wasn't just telling her what she should hear, father to daughter, he was being honest and direct.
It was the directness she continued to seek. "I was just – it felt like the only thing I could do. I didn't think about calling for anyone, and I should have," any kind of call, form a mental one to Peter to a telephone call to her dad, "I just thought about making him go away permanently."
And that pricked oddly at her, that murder had been most prevalent. Even now, the feeling was hard to explain. She wasn't certain she liked what that said about her, especially as Jareth had lived through doing all the other things he'd done.