Try not to think about it too much. If you can think of ways to handle it, they probably won't do it. It seemed to be related to turning me into a weapon this time, but all three times I've been kidnapped, time was involved in a major way. On the other hand, people have been turned into animals or just had things that were humiliating. [It's strange, and there isn't much rhyme or reason to it that Marco can sense. Getting turned into kids was most common, but probably because of trying to figure out how to play with time itself, he figures.]

Aye... ships are the trickiest to acquire here. Although, even if you did get her back, there's nowhere to escape with her, eh.