Everyone was sitting at the table for breakfast the next morning-everyone, that is, except for Bruno.

"Where is he? Mirabel?"

"I don't know," Mirabel replied with a slight frown. "He wasn't in the nursery when I woke up, so I was thinking he went back to his tower or something."

"Well you went to get him for breakfast, didn't you? You didn't see him?"

She shook her head. "No, but I just figured he went to the top of his tower or something. It's…A lot of stairs, so I didn't check."

Right as Mirabel said that, Camilo reached over to start dishing up, but Pepa whacked his hand away. "Milo," she said with a disapproving glare. "We don't start eating until everyone is here. You know this."

"Okay, okay, sorry!" Camilo replied, taking his hand away and setting it back on his lap. "We don't even know if Tio Bruno's awake yet tough-can't we just start without him?" They'd been eating meals without him for years anyway.

Alma didn't look very pleased about Camilo's idea. The look on her face sent the teen shrinking back in his seat a little. "No. This is an important meal; it's the first one we'll have back in our home all together, and the first one back with Bruno. We will not start without him," the matriarch replied. The expression on her face softened, and she turned to the youngest in the family. "Tonito, could you take your jaguar up Bruno's stairs and find your uncle?"

"Sure!" Little Antonio replied eagerly. He hopped out of his seat and onto his jaguar's back, and the boy and animal made their way to Bruno's tower.

A few short minutes later though, they returned, and Antonio looked disappointed. "He's not there," he said.

"What? He's not? Are you sure?"

Antonio nodded. "Yeah, I looked everywhere!"

"Where could he be then?" Pepa said, a worried look crossing her face, and a cloud already starting to form over her head. "Where else would he have to go? Did he go to the village?"

"I don't think he would," Mirabel said, brows furrowed. "Even when the casita was being rebuilt, he hardly took a step into the village. I don't know why he suddenly would."

"Then where? Where is he? No one saw him earlier this morning?"

Everyone shook their heads. Rain started to drizzle above Pepa, and Felix pulled out an umbrella.

"Does anybody have any idea where he might be?" Abuela asked, sighing. It was silent for a moment, everyone thinking, before Antonio spoke up.

"I can ask the rats!" As the boy said that, several rats scurried up to him. Before he got the chance to relay what the rats were saying though, a strange look crossed Dolores' face.

"He's in the walls again. Asleep," she said.

Everyone looked shocked by that. Confusion was written on everyone's faces, but Pepa in particular looked the most distressed. "He's back in the walls? Does this mean he's not comfortable here, is he-" the woman continued to go on anxiously ranting, the area of the rain growing and the wind picking up as she did so. Everyone tried to shield themselves from the rain. Felix tried to calm his wife down, and Julieta quickly went to cover the food before it got ruined.

Mirabel stood up all of a sudden. "It's okay, Tia Pepa, I'll go get him. I'm sure he had a good reason for going back there, he wouldn't want you to worry."

Pepa nodded, but she didn't seem to really be paying much attention to Mirabel; the rains grew only harder. Mirabel gave a quick nod to her abuela and then left the table, going off to look for her uncle. What reason did he have for going back to the walls, anyway? And when did he leave her room? She knew for a fact that he'd been fast asleep when she got to the nursery last night.

Also, she was pretty sure that the interior of the walls were no longer there after being destroyed; the house wasn't rebuilt with Bruno's secret passageways and little hideout in mind. Did Bruno somehow make them reappear last night? If so, then she wondered if the entrance behind the portrait had returned too…

Mirabel walked up the stairs and over to the portrait. Indeed, the entrance was back. Hmm…

The inside was much less dusty though, and there weren't any hazardous holes in the floor anymore. Getting to the door to Bruno's hideout was much easier now than it had been last time she was here, that was for sure.

For everyone's sake, she hoped that Bruno really was here (because no one had any other ideas of where to look for him) since his little disappearing act was only causing worry to float around. Everyone was probably thinking what Pepa said, what if Bruno went back to the walls because he didn't feel safe or comfortable here, what if he just wanted to go back to hiding again? Now that Bruno was back in their lives, everyone wanted him back for good. Him not wanting to stay with them couldn't be an option.

She could hear thunder from Pepa's storm in here, and there was a good chance that it started raining outside by now too. After the whole incident with the prophecy at last night's party, the villagers would be nervous about this storm and some of them might try to come talk to Abuela about it. Mirabel hoped they wouldn't, the village just really needed to stay out of their business for this one. She noticed how her tio was acting last night, he clearly didn't want to speak to the villagers. Alma did her best to explain the prophecy to everyone and tried to calm their fears, but there was only so much she could do. Mirabel was sure that there were still some folks in town who wanted to march right up to Bruno and demand he explain more.

Poor Bruno. After his prophecy most likely happened later today, he would probably go back to being blamed and feared for his powers. By the villagers, that is. Mirabel knew for a fact that no Madrigal would blame Bruno for his visions ever again. He was to be welcomed and happy in this family, and that was that. Still…

"Tio, you're going to have a lot of explaining to do once you join us for breakfast," she muttered as she turned the knob of Bruno's door.