Duckary! *hugs*

Radium ticks off the local monarch again. YaY!

"No way," Jack said, shaking his head. "No way."
"I tell you, Radium's got the Riveth," Shinyso said, voice firm. "He swore he wouldn't let it fall into the hands of the Order Mage. He also said we'd get it back."
"That was our only chance of getting Jazz and Eva back," Lori said, pale. "Who else will he kidnap?"
He didn't kidnap Eva," Sasha said, landing on the windowsill. "Irinn Hariam did."
He winced as Eva slid off his back. The princess looked no worse for wear from her stay with her kidnapper. As soon as her feet touched the floor, she was being hugged by most of the assembled rabbits. Spaz clung to her arm and would not release her.
When she finally emerged from the small mob, Spaz in tow, Jack greeted her with just as much enthusiasm but a little more restraint. Finally he managed to ask, "who did Sasha say kidnapped you?"
"Irinn Hariam," she said, smile vanishing. Jack turned to Wizard.
"Find out as much as you can about him - her? - will you?"
"Sure."
Jack turned back to Eva. "So if Irinn kidnapped you, who wants the Riveth? And what did this Irinn want?"
"I have a contact, an ally in Irinn's HQ. He couldn't say much, but he mentioned one of Irinn's allies as a possible Order Mage. What Irinn wanted was for Jazz to surrender ... "
"So he doesn't know about Jazz missing."
"No. He's got a huge invasion fleet - Jack, we need Jazz. We have to get him back!"
"We can't. The -"
"Why not?" the Queen demanded, having just come in. "Oh, hello, Eva dear. Nice to have you back," she added absently. Then she turned back to Jack, a steely glint in her eye. "Why not, Flash?"
Jack sighed. "The Riveth has been stolen."
"Stolen by whom?"
"Radium," Jack admitted. Sasha's head came up so fast that he cracked it against the wall with a muffled "ow".
"Radium? How dare he! I told him to leave it alone. How dare he?"
"We couldn't stop him," Shinyso said quietly. "I'd forgotten the tricks he has."
"Such as?" Eva inquired.
"Mind control, shapeshifting, the like."
"Oh."
"The worst part is," Jack said, "we still haven't located Jazz."