Black fine line tattoo of small arrows running down a woman's spine, photographed from behind in denim cut-off shorts.

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Arrow line running down the spine

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A woman is photographed from behind with her hair in a loose bun. A vertical line of small black arrow or dart shapes runs down the centre of her spine, with fine, crisp linework. A smaller tattoo is partly visible on her upper arm, and the palette is limited to black ink against warm, muted tones of the setting.

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Osric had already cut the shafts for the autumn order when Hild came in from the rain, shaking water off her cloak onto the flagstones. "Fourteen dozen for the fort at Vindolanda," he said without looking up, "and the centurion wants every one of them pointing the same way."

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She knew what he meant. Every head had to be bedded in pitch at the same angle, every fletching laid so the whole bundle leaned into the wind like rooks settling on a ploughed field. Her father had taught her on the old yew stave he kept behind the hearth, the one he said had belonged to his own father and a good many dead men before that.

She worked through the night with a bone scraper and a pot of warm glue, her fingers stiffening in the cold. By the time the lamp guttered she had finished the last shaft and set it on the bench with the others, every tip facing the door. Only then did she notice that her father had left one length of ash uncut, its head still pale and unpointed.

"That one's yours," he said from the dark doorway. "Fetch the goose feathers from the back shelf. You can decide where it flies."

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