"Quite the statement, for one in Yorvet's control." She remarked, idly reaching up to tangle her fingers in his hair. "You're basically in expropriation. Here. You're basically a slave, not owning a single thing."
Kolt pushed himself away from her. "If you're trying to get me to like you, you're failing miserably." He rolled his eyes. If Yorvet told him anything useful, then the one thing he did own in this place was the Lunette blade. That couldn't be taken from him.
"I'm not trying to get you to like me." She laughed, taking his arm again.
"Then you get a gold medal for annoyance." He pulled away from her. "Go bug someone else."
Expropriate -1: to deprive of possession of proprietary rights 2: to transfer (the property of another) to one's own possession.
Added Info -If you guessed that "expropriate" has something in common with the verb "appropriate," you're right. Both words ultimately derive from the Latin adjective proprius, meaning "own." "Expropriate" came to us by way of the Medieval Latin verb expropriare, itself from Latin ex- ("out of" or "from") and proprius. "Appropriate" descends from Late Latin appropriare, which joins proprius and Latin ad- ("to" or "toward"). Both the verb "appropriate" ("to take possession of" or "to set aside for a particular use") and the adjective "appropriate" ("fitting" or "suitable") have been with us since the 15th century, and "expropriate" has been a part of the language since at least 1611. Other proprius descendants in English include "proper" and "property."
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