Fine line tattoo of an arrow passing through two crescent moons on the wrist, with green accents along the shaft.

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Arrow and crescent moons on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A fine line arrow runs horizontally through two overlapping crescent moon outlines. The fletching and arrowhead are black and the shaft has small green details and dotted accents. The design is centred on the wrist, with the skin around it showing some redness, and the composition is simple and symmetrical.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the stew caught on the bottom again this evening, and Mr Haskins says it is my fault for watching the moon through the scuttle instead of the pot. I told him there were two of them out there tonight, one thin and one fat, sitting either side of the sea like a pair of bent oars. He said the sea only had one moon worth looking at, and it was the one in his rum.

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Pim Oakes, the ship's boy, has been making arrows since Lisbon from gull feathers and scraps of sail twine. He shoots at the bottles bobbing off the bowsprit and hits about one in six, which Cook says is better than the Admiral's marksmen manage. Last night he fletched a shaft with a green band scraped from the lichen on the anchor chain, and he dotted it with paint from the capstan so it would be easy to find in the dark. He said a thing that flies straight always points somewhere, even if nobody is there to meet it.

On Thursday the wind dropped and Pim loosed the arrow at the mainmast out of plain boredom. It cleared the rail and we heard it hit the water with a little slap. We rowed for an hour before I saw it bobbing, the green band still bright, the tip turned back towards the ship as if it had something to say. Pim cried, then pretended he hadn't. I have put it in my chest with your last letter, so you can see which way it points when the moon is thin.

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