The next day while Masako was doing her scan of the house with John, Mai was left at the base with Lin and Naru. She hadn't dreamt or been at all helpful on the case so far and Naru had given her the cold shoulder except for getting tea. She had taken Takigawa with her to get tea a few times to enjoy his company and he always seemed hungry when food was around, but he and Ayako had left to check the library for further information on the lot or gossip around town.

"Mai, tea." Noll ordered never looking up from his laptop.

Mai stood and started to walk then paused and looked around the room. Only Lin and Naru were sitting there. The rest of the team was out. "Lin-san, could you walk with me to the kitchen?" Lin looked up and moved to stand but she heard Noll sigh frustrated.

"No, he will not accompany you, you haven't had any dreams and are not seeming to take this case seriously, every time you go somewhere you ask someone to accompany you but we have seen no ghosts or any reasons for this. Go get some tea or go home."

Mai looked frustrated, she fought tears from coming to her eyes as she looked to Lin his eyes darted from her to the monitors and back to her. Silently telling her he would watch her every move. She went over to her notebook on the couch, scribbled something then headed out to the kitchen. Lin watched her as she passed every camera, down the hallway, around the corner, through the living room down another hallway and into the kitchen. The kitchen camera seemed slightly off center, Lin resolved to check it later but just watched for now.

Mai placed a pot on the stove and prepared 2 cups of tea. Then she stood there and watched the pot, true to the saying the watch pot never boils so she started humming and paced around the kitchen. She went slightly out of camera sight and Lin waited, the he saw her hand pass quickly by the camera and disappear. Then nothing. He waited. A minute, no sign of Mai. He stood and walked to the door.

"Lin, what are you doing?"

"Mai disappeared off camera line, the tea pot is whistling." He stated as he proceeded through the door. Noll instantly got to his feet and followed, they ran full tilt to the kitchen. They got there and saw, two cups of tea, a boiling pot of water and in the corner of the room, a nearly empty saucer of milk.

Lin and Noll searched the kitchen. Every shelf, every cupboard was looked through checked for a passageway, anything. But nothing was found. They went back to the base to review the footage, while Ayako and the monk entered the room. Spying the two worried faces they stopped their conversation and surveyed the room.

"Where's Mai?" The monk questioned. Watching the faces of the guys returning he watched the video as they reviewed it.

Slightly off center camera allowed Mai to disappear from sight, they turned up the sound. Mai paced throughout the kitchen again humming. When she disappeared from sight again the humming stopped. "You?" Mai's voice questioned before they saw her hand fall limply through the view of the camera, then disappear. No other sounds were heard besides the boiling of the water and the eventual approach of the two men.

Hara-san and john returned at that point and Naru turned to them.

"Masako did you sense any other spirits around? Anything strange a few minutes ago?" Noll questioned.

"No, only the two I have sensed since we got here." She stated.

"Near the kitchen?"

"Neither of them was near the kitchen."

"Did Mai tell anyone why she kept asking for people to escort her to the kitchen?" He asked in general replaying parts of the video not looking at them.

"No, Naru-bou"

Naru straightened not getting anything more from the tapes. "Monk, Hara-san, Matsuzaki-san please go to the kitchen and search it again." the group murmurs and left.

They all turned to leave, why was his assistant such a handful? If she knew something why didn't she say anything? She said she had no dreams. What was it that he was missing? He tapped his pen steadily, what was it. Lin watched the monitor again then looks over, seeing Noll thinking so hard, there must be a clue. Then they both looked over to where Mai was sitting before she left and it dawned on them. Noll stood and picked up the notebook that sat in her spot. Opening it to the last page he read it.

'Paranormal things are not the only dangers in a case, idiot scientist.'

Noll threw the book toward Lin and clenched his fists. Mai's instincts must have told her something else was up but she didn't tell them, but took the extra precaution of taking someone with her until she knew what it was. When he forced her out without it, something happened.

Lin stayed silent rereading the notebook. He came to the same conclusion Noll had. Now they were stuck with out her and it was Noll's fault. It was a few minutes before group came back and having no better luck locating the girl then they had. She had disappeared. Lin passed the notebook to the monk and miko, who stared at it.

"What does this mean?" The monk asked unbelieving. Noll ignored the question.

"Hara-san, you still say only two spirits?" She nodded. "You said one of them was odd, familiar, what did you mean by that?"

"It doesn't feel like it is attached to the house here, or one particular place, seems kind of out of place, and… almost like I have sensed it before."

"Like from a past case?" Ayako asked. They all stared at the medium. She hid her face behind her sleeve, unable to answer.