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What Acquisition means

Author: Jules Golden
last update publish date: 2026-05-22 16:43:02

Chapter 102

We sat with the word for a long time.

Not because we didn't understand it. Because understanding it fully required sitting inside it and letting all of its implications arrive in the right order rather than all at once.

Acquisition.

Not abduction. Not harm. Not the language of someone planning violence or cruelty or any of the things the word threat usually meant when it was pointed at a person.

The language of someone planning to collect what they considered legally theirs.

It was
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