"Groanin!" Philippa caught sight of Nimrod's butler when they got off the plane.
"It is great to see you Ms. Philippa, I say it is great to see you." Groanin embraced Philippa then John.
"I'm worried about your uncle, very worried, he always leaves notes or such when he slinks off somewhere… and he usually doesn't wander around in spirit form either, I say he usually doesn't wander around as a spirit." John and Philippa hopped into the car.
"Did he say he would take a while?" John asked
"No actually he said he would be fairly quick." Groanin had a death grip on the steering wheel.
"He usually brings me along with him places as well but being in spirit form and all… I mean he went to go investigate that blasted bridge and to get past all that security and all he had to be invisible! But now… I don't know where to look!"
"It will be ok Mr. Groanin, maybe after we get settled we will go look around that site our selves, I mean it's plenty warm, and with John we can stick with the buddy system. And if he's nowhere around the bridge well…" Philippa stopped right there to not dampen the butler's already darkened mood.
Groanin pulled into the drive and parked at the large English home. All three went inside and John and Philippa unpacked and settled in.
"Maybe he's in the house somewhere!" John exclaimed thinking of his uncle. "We should take a quick peek."
"Philippa nodded her head "Not such a bad idea, but if he is why wouldn't he just come back into his body and tell his clearly distressed butler he's ok?"Second thinking the idea "I think we should start at the bridge…I don't know but I really think we should start there."
"Well, if you insist." John sat down. "I wonder what's for dinner." He said out loud. Philippa stared at him
"Your uncle is missing and all you can think about is food!" She shook her head "You even surprise me John."
"What? I'm hungry." John said looking at his sister. "I'm always hungry after plane rides. I think it's a claustrophobia thing."He said stuffing his suit case under the bed Philippa shook her head.
"I guess I'm pretty hungry to. But I'm more anxious to look for Uncle Nimrod!"She started to bite her nails "He could be in real trouble, I mean who knows, maybe he was taken hostage by an evil djinn, or attacked by some unheard of spirit monster."
"Spirit monster?" John asked "Really… that sound so cool!" He looked at his sister who was looking at him like he just committed a crime.
"What? You have to admit that sounds…" but he stopped seeing he was only making his twin sister look more accusingly at him.
"How about we go convince Mr. Groanin to let us go search for him now." Philippa suggested "The sooner the better!" John nodded
"I agree!" they both went down stairs and talked to Mr. Groanin only to find him already waiting to go.
"Ready to go?" Groanin asked and opened the door
"Anxious, Mr. Groanin?" John asked and headed out the door.
"Well to be honest John yes… it's been quite odd without your uncle lately and I'm not feeling quite myself, I've felt really weird lately."
"I realized that… you haven't really complained about one thing." Philippa said looking out the window.
"Yeah so have I" John added."Not like you at all." they pulled into a parking lot not far from the fallen bridge sight.
"It's sad to think 21 people have died here. I mean to think they had families and all. It's terrible this happened." She nodded gravely "Best start here, and Mr. Groanin, if we don't come back in a while don't worry I'm sure it'll be fine and we'll be okay." John busted in
"And if we are gone for a while don't call and tell our mom!" He always hated when mother's became frantic and hysterical about nothing, his seen some of his friends mom's freak out just because they were five minutes late.
"You have my word you two. Just be sure not to be gone way too long I'm sure your mom will call to check up on you sometime, or your dad, either or I'm a terrible liar." Groanin looked in the rear view mirror to look at them
"And if you plan to be more than twenty four hours come back and tell me please!"
John and Philippa nodded and slid into spirit form.
