Fine line black tattoo of an arrow passing through an infinity symbol on the inner wrist and forearm.

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Arrow and infinity symbol on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A thin black arrow runs vertically across the inner wrist, with its shaft passing through an infinity symbol at the centre and feathered fletching at the lower end. The linework is fine and even, with solid black ink and no shading or colour. The tattoo sits centrally on a forearm resting on a pale blue padded surface, with the hand raised at the top of the frame.

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Dear Tom, Mr Aske's shop on Whitby Lane has been shut since Michaelmas, but he still lets me sweep it out each morning. He says a boy who can keep a feather straight for a week can keep a workshop going through a winter.

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The mark he burns into every shaft is the one from his father's ledger: a loop lying on its side, with the arrow run straight through its middle, feathers at the foot and head at the top. He says the loop is the line that never ends, the string going back to the yew it was cut from. I asked how the shaft gets through the loop without cutting it, and he laughed so hard he dropped a nock into the trough.

Last week the bishop's men came for forty bowstaves for the coast watch. I counted them into the cart with my own hands, each one marked, and Aske made me sign the carrier's book under his name. Your letter says the sea at Hull is grey as slate. Here it is the same, only the gulls are fatter and bolder.

Last night I tried the mark on a scrap of hide by the stove. I drew the loop three times until my hand stopped shaking, then ran the arrow through it and stitched the feathers on last. It looked like a thing that might leave and still find its way back. Keep your spare bow dry, and write as soon as the ships are in. Your loving sister, Nell.

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