Sarah was frightened. Not of the Goblin King, or anything in the Labyrinth, really. No, her fear was in the fact that Jareth had a sock puppet replica of Karen on his hand, along with sock puppets to represent her and the rest of her family sitting idly on the throne.

"While the Labyrinth itself is meant to be a sort of 'emergency teaching tool', designed to put you in situations where you are forced to learn necessary lessons about life, sometimes you can learn things with... simpler methods," he explained as he waved his puppeted hand in front of her.

Sarah wasn't sure if she should fear for his sanity or laugh.

"Hello, Sarah. I'm your mother!" he said in the most obnoxious falsetto voice a man can muster.

Sarah just stared at the puppet, having no idea what he was trying to get her to do. Jareth half-frowned, half-pouted at her.

"It doesn't work if you don't play along, Sarah." He didn't realize that her theatre classes in high school didn't prepare her for... whatever this is.

"Um... hello, mother," Sarah said, failing entirely at keeping a straight face. She thought to herself about practicing this in front of a mirror for future use in comedic performances.

"Sarah," the sock puppet said, still with the obnoxious falsetto. "Why don't you and I have some nice mother/daughter bonding? We could go see a movie, do our nails, get makeovers, do our hair-"

At this point Sarah couldn't help herself. She burst out laughing at the Goblin King and his idea of the sock puppets.

"I'm sorry, but I can't take you seriously like this!"

Jareth remained calm and collected, and answered quite simply.

"If you can't take me seriously, think about your mother."

Sarah stopped laughing and began to think. He did have a point. Sarah still had trouble viewing Karen as a serious parental figure, especially considering that she still tried to keep in contact with her birth mother as much as she could. She couldn't even imagine how Karen must have felt about Sarah not seeing her as a mother.

"Let's try this again, shall we?"