Jacob's not sure what has happened, how it's happened, but Angel is worried, and that worries him. Connor is steady and sensible, but he's also stubborn and independent, and likely to go off on his own if he thinks it's the best option. Just as she had said, he would go marching off and get himself killed. Anchor was not a place to run headlong into if your head had been messed with.

Thankfully, getting to the maze does not take long. And there is Angel, and there is Connor, who looks... not unlike the man Jacob first met, on the snowy streets of the City of Sin. Stern, utterly unlike his grandfather. And they're not hanging off each other. She's normally leaning into him, or he has an arm around her, to their fingers are intertwined. He can feel the uneasy radiate off them, and it's horrible.

"I came as soon as I could," he says, looking from Connor to Angel, noting the worry on her face.