A man seen from behind in a black beanie and olive t-shirt, with black and grey tattoos on his left forearm and upper arm.

Black and grey tattoos on a forearm

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A man walks along a concrete-walled street, seen from behind, carrying a black leather backpack. Black and grey tattoos cover the forearm and part of the upper arm, including what appears to be an animal head with shaded fur and a small bird above it. Lettering is visible lower down the arm, though it is too small to read clearly, and the photo is taken in soft natural light.

Forearm Upper arm Animal head Bird Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Parn had been counting the hens for three days before he admitted the fox was taking them one at a time, and not for hunger. The bodies were left whole on the wall of the orchard, heads turned towards the village as if to make a point. Nobody in Hollin Wood Edge wanted to hear it from a boy of eleven, so Parn took his grandmother's lantern and went up past the last stile, where the beeches gave way to bracken.

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The fox was waiting on a fallen trunk, grey at the muzzle, its fur shaded dark along the spine like soot pressed into wet clay. A small brown bird sat on the branch above it, unbothered, and it was the bird that spoke first. "He wants to know why you have come without a basket," it said. "Foxes do not trade with boys who carry nothing."

Parn had brought a question instead. He asked why the hens were left lying where they could be seen. The fox looked at him for a long time, then said the village had taken its eggs for a generation and never once asked whose nest they were. That was the bargain, and the bargain had been broken. Parn did not know what a bargain was worth to a fox, but he knew his grandmother had hidden two hens from the tithe-man with a lie, and that the lie had been kept by the fox's silence.

He walked home at first light with an empty basket and a promise he could not yet keep. The orchard wall was bare that morning. On the stile someone had left a single brown feather, and the bird had gone.