"Your Father searches for you, noble brat." Yorvet's voice sounded from far away. "He approaches the transpontine edge of the waters. Searching for you."
Kolton managed to laugh through the pain. "I told you, you can't keep me here." He was going to be hanged! Kolton would see to that.
Yorvet's laugh out weighed his own. "Your father will not find you, here, brat. You're mine. However I wish you to be, you will be, you are my servant."
Kolton rolled to hands and knees. "I am here. He will find me. You can't hide me!" he managed. There would be no way to be able to keep him quiet. He would see to that. He would kick and scream and yell and draw his father's attention to him.
Transpontine - 1: situated on the father side of a bridge 2 British :situated on the south side of the Thames
Added Info - Usually, the prefix "trans," meaning "across," allows for a reciprocal perspective. Whether you're in Europe or America, for example, transoceanic countries are countries across the ocean from where you are. But that's not the way it originally worked with "transpontine." The "pont-" in "transpontine" is from the Latin pons, meaning "bridge," and the bridge in this case was , at first, any bridge that crossed the river Thames in the city of London. "Across the bridge" meant on one side of the river only--the south side. That's where the theaters that featured popular melodramas were located, and Victorian Londoners first used "transpontine" to distinguish them from their more respectable "cispontine" ("situated on the nearer side of the bridge") counterparts north of the Thames.
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