Yae Miko had been shuffling through the letters sent to the Publishing House while enjoying some tofu when she noticed the ransom letter. It had no address, and all the letters had been cut and pasted from magazines.
Miss Yae Miko,
We have your son. Follow our instructions and he will be returned safely. Drop one million Mora in the old Sakura tree by Chinju Forest.
"What are they talking about?" she wondered. "I don't have a son."
She wrote a reply letter, used a little Youkai magic to track them, and put it in the tree. Three days passed, and she had forgotten all about it, when the next ransom letter came in the box.
Miss Yae Miko,
If he's not your son, why did he call you 'mommy' when we drugged him?
Yae Miko snapped up. "Gods damn it, they kidnapped Aether."
The UHA promptly assembled, raided the kidnapper's lair, and recovered the drugged Aether. When she found him, he grinned at her in a dazed way.
"Oh, hey, mommy…" he mumbled distantly. Yae Miko hugged him and patted his head.
"Shh, mommy's here now."