[April 13] [Card Captor Sakura] Piece by Piece

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Title: Piece by Piece
Day/Theme: April 13 / Across the bridge
Series: Card Captor Sakura
Character/Pairing: Fujitaka
Rating: G
Notes: Manga canon


Ever since he could remember, Fujitaka had been fascinated with the past. As a boy, he spent whole days reading, immersed on the amazing stories of Persia and Egypt and Greece. He learned that the Summerians were the first people who put their ideas in writing. He stared for hours at the images of Assyrian winged lions. He wondered if he'd ever see the pyramids built by the Aztecs or the Mayas.

He became a teacher because he was good with people, and also because he liked to tell them about what he knew. He loved sharing all his interest and enthusiasm. But there was no one he could talk to; he had no one to listen to him. So he went looking for them, and hoped he could make his students love the past even half as much as he did.

But he became an archaeologist because it was his dream. It was what he had always wanted to do, and he knew how lucky he was to have the chance of working on the field he had chosen. Besides, he was good at it. He had a talent for figuring out the past, placing the clues together, looking at small things and details and giving them a proper context.

He had never imagined exactly how useful this ability would turn out in the long run. But, by then, he was used to things making more sense in retrospect.


(Note: credit goes to amewarashi for putting the mental image of the Assyrian lamassu in my head again. ^_^ )