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A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war. However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.
A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host.
The English word "hostage" derives from French ostage, modern otage, from Late Latin obsidaticum (Medieval Latin ostaticum, ostagium), the state of being an obses (plural obsides), "hostage", from Latin obsideō ("I haunt / frequent / blockade / besiege"), but an etymological connection was later supposed with Latin hostis ("stranger," later "enemy"). This long history of political and military use indicates that political authorities or generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostages in the custody of the other side, as guarantee of good faith in the observance of obligations. These obligations would be in the form of signing of a peace treaty, in the hands of the victor, or even exchange hostages as mutual assurance in cases such as an armistice. Major powers, such as Ancient Rome and the British who had colonial vassals, would especially receive many such political hostages, often offspring of the elite, even princes or princesses who were generally treated according to their rank and put to a subtle long-term use where they would be given an elitist education or possibly even a religious conversion. This would eventually influence them culturally and open the way for an amicable political line if they ascended to power after release.
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Ten frozen memories lost into your pool of interrupted thought
I could have reminisced for hours
But right now you are all I get to remember
I'm waiting for something to get through to you
I'm waiting to see a truer side of you, and we're
Let's make this quick
I'll bother you, you'll tear it away, tear it away
Let's make this quick
I'll bother you, you'll tear it away, tear it away
Cut broken enemies off into your pit of non-valuable losses
Could have stayed and dreamt for days
But the sight must be far worse than the taste
And I'm waiting for something to get through to you
And I'm waiting to burn compassion into you and we're
We don't even know if we're to blame for all of this
We don't even know if we're in the clear, the clear
We don't even know if we should bank on any of this
And we don't even know if we'll go, if we'll go, if we'll go
So let's make this quick
I'll bother you, you'll tear it away, tear it away
Let's make this quick
I'll bother you, you'll tear it away, tear it away
This isn't happening, leave me with myself
Leave me with myself
This isn't happening, leave me with myself