Small black and grey fine line bee tattoo with shaded body and translucent wings, placed on the upper back of a woman with short brown hair wearing a white vest top.

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Bee tattoo on upper back

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A small bee is tattooed centrally on the upper back, just below the nape of the neck. The insect is drawn with fine dark outlines, with grey shading on the striped abdomen and soft grey tones across the transparent wings. The background is softly out of focus, and the composition frames the tattoo against bare skin and a white top.

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Dear Ines, the bees came over the Col de Sarrat on Tuesday, all four hives strapped to the mule, and I have not slept properly since because I keep hearing them through the wood. Old Mateu said we should wait for the thaw, but the heather on the far side has come early this year and the colony at Font Vella is failing, so I put the queen in a cage with a plug of candy and we went.

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The track was worse than I remembered. Wind came off the snow in long pulls and the mule stopped twice at the scree. At the top, where the cairn is, I opened the box a crack to check the comb, and a single worker walked out onto my wrist, cleaned her antennae the way they do, and then lifted without any fuss into the grey light. I watched her go down towards the larches until I could no longer tell her from the glare.

I have decided I will not tell Mateu about the cage. He would only shake his head and say a queen is not a passport. What matters is that the hives are settled by the stream now, and yesterday I saw wings on the first flowers, pale as ash in the sun.

Write when you can. Tell Papa the goat is still alive, though only just.

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