Moxxie: There's no easy way to break it to you, your highness, but the long and short of it is he's been kidnapped.
Octavia: By who?!
Blitzo: Your mom.
Stolas: Blitzy, I don't think this is the time to be making those horrid "Your mother" jokes-
Blitzo: No, I mean that your wife is the one that kidnapped Y/N!
Stolas & Octavia: What?!
Stolas: What did he ever do to Stella?
Millie: No clue. But we heard from another assassin that an old...friend of ours was hired by her.
Octavia: Who?
Loona: ...Strika.
Octavia: Protective girlfriend mode activated
Stolas: The same woman who was hired to assassinate me at the Harvest Moon Festival?
Millie: The one and only.
Blitzo: Look we called you because you know that classist bitch better than anyone. Where would she be hiding Y/N?
Octavia: Well, I can try my locator spell.
She pulls a small orb out of her pocket and whispers an incantation. After a few seconds, she massages her temples as if she has a headache.
Octavia: It's not working. Something's disrupting the spell.
Stolas: There is *one* place she might be keeping him...
He outstretches his hands and casts an illusion of a small castle
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Stolas: This castle has been in Stella's family for ten generations.
Verosika: It's not in your name as well?
Stolas: No. My matrimony to Stella was...an arrangement.
Octavia: What?
Stolas: It was never about love. It was about wealth, status, and political gain.
Octavia: You mean that you and Mum never really loved each other???
Stolas: ...No.
He bends down and places his hands on Octavia's shoulders.
Stolas: Please try to understand, Via. I *tried* to make things work, but she was always so cold and distant towards me. (Looking towards Blitzo) It's why I've been unfaithful to her.
Octavia: But you always seemed so happy when I was kid.
Stolas: You were young, My Owlette. Children have the pleasure of having innocent minds and not having to carry the burdens of adulthood.
