Two weeks. No notice. Eugene had assumed that they were just missing one another, after the time disaster and the Department of Mysteries likely being overloaded, he supposed Astrild was just working longer hours, but as they never shared a bed let alone the dinner table, he'd finally realized she was just... gone.

Huh.

Apparently Eugene really was going to rock this single parent thing. However, he thought he out to at least check her parents' house to make sure that she wasn't just hiding from him and Theseus.

Knocking on his in-laws' door, Eugene shifted from foot to foot a little nervously. Why he was nervous he had no idea, perhaps a little embarrassed he was just noticing his wife was well and truly gone, but the fact remained- she hadn't given him any warning or notice, so what else was he supposed to believe?

Once he was let in, he was shown to the drawing room and asked to wait while Ailsa and Ewart were located (which apparently could take some time? Because their household staff had no idea where they were at currently.) This was going to be one hell of a conversation, he just knew it.