Fantasy Trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/index_report.php
Current Event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
I know this is just a wiki, but this idea was inspired by a former student of mine who became a physics teacher and is currently teaching in China. He visited this site several weeks ago and has posted pictures on Facebook. His pictures of this army came up recently and though I couldn’t link directly to his Facebook, I linked here:
It got me thinking – if there are some 8000 pieces (and about as many are still buried)…what if the mother of a teenager was working as part of an international team and uncovered something unusual (not that a standing army of 16,000 horses, soldiers, acrobats and various and sundry other “people” isn’t unusual enough!) What if an archaeologist intern, Wu unearths a unique figure, say a woman, knocked down, crying out in terror, with her arm upraised as a man draws back a spear and is obviously about to run her through…
Is there a curse on this piece that comes to haunt the head archaeologist’s teen boy, Shun when he sees it and is strangely attracted to it?
Or is it case for a forensic anthropologist (or would it be, more appropriately a forensic terracottaist) and was a MURDER involved which someone commemorated? Who did the commemorating, who was the perpetrator – and what if it had a connection to the present?)...
Caihong stared down at the face of the terracotta daughter, the sole female discovered some distance from the terracotta army. A soldier with a raised sword held over his head – except his was missing the arm…and the sword…threatened her. “He’s going to kill her!” she said. “It’s obvious. Besides, he’s armored and she’s just wearing a sack.”
Dong, who hated his name and went by Chuck in school back in Minneapolis, shook his head. “How do you know she was afraid? You can barely tell what her face looked like.” He glanced as his sister, “Though she sort of looks like you.”
She cut his snicker off. “Shut up, Tiny-Dong. She’s terrified.”
Glaring, he said, “What do you know? Mom’s the expert on this creepy terracotta army.”
A young man looked down at them from above. He said in British-accented English. “She’s one of the only Americans to study the Army.” The way he said it made it sound…capitalized. He sat down at on the lip of the short trench. It was separated from the main army by a kilometer. “I think her history is interesting, but not complete.”
Caihong sniffed. “You can’t be any older than Ding-Dong here.”
“My name is Gang, I’ve…studied the terracotta acrobats.”
Chuck frowned then said, “You look like one of them.”
“You’re familiar with the statues?” said Gang.
Caihong cut in, “He likes anyone that looks like him – skinny and wimpy…”
Names: ♀;♂China
Links: https://pushingtime.com/terracotta-daughters/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acrobats Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/71/e5/9871e52bbc09c525af21b8f6471eab15.jpg
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