"Thank you," Mako says, his voice a ringing hollow thing. He is in the depths of Wu's house, and Chuck and Raleigh are here, still, but Mako knew he had to update Evelyn, and having a task was important. First it was find Wu, and then deal with his ghost, and then get home, and then call Evelyn. He dreads running out of tasks, because then he will have to face the yawning darkness in front of him, and Mako doesn't know what happens when that wave breaks over him. It'll pull him under, he's pretty sure.

He swallows, leaning his weight on the countertop once his own legs stop doing the job. "You might actually want to not... go to work. It happened pretty close to the shop, and the guy who did it is still out there somewhere. I don't want the same thing happening to you."

He can't deal with that, too, with Evelyn also being gone: she's a steady kind of spitfire, and Mako likes her too much to let anything like that to happen.