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Title: The Dreamer's Question
Fandom: xxxHOLiC/Cardcaptor Sakura/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Length: 2918 words
Prompt: contemporary AU for cliche_bingo
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: CCS/TRC/xH crossover, spoilers for recent chapters, surprisingly G, mostly AU. The one in which Clow and Yuuko are married and Clow has been having interesting dreams.

Excerpt: Kimihiro, like Sakura, grows up learning three languages. His father teaches him to cook and sew; his mother teaches him how to choose the right kind of sake and how to see the things that are really there that no one notices. He manifests his first magic circle at the age of nine; he exorcises his first spirit not much later, in a flailing manner alongside the cool young grandson of a priest who lives nearby. It is not a usual life, perhaps, but it is a happy one.

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