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Black cat face on the inner wrist
Forearm · Black and grey · Photo
A small cartoon cat face is tattooed on the inner wrist, with pointed ears, round white eyes and three whiskers on each side. The head is filled with solid black ink, while the ears and whiskers are drawn as thinner outlines. The image is a close, straight-on shot against a pale cream bedsheet, with the hand cropped at the top of the frame.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Sit closer, you lot, and mind the lamp, it smokes when the wind comes off the Marrow Sea. Now. In the kingdom of Vell-under-Hollin, which you will not find on any map because the mapmakers were all bribed by a goose, there lived a black cat called Sorrel-Who-Is-Not-Red. Nobody remembered who named her. She had round white eyes like two coins dropped in ink, and ears so tall she could hear a letter being folded in a house three streets away.
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The palace of Vell kept a post that ran on cats, because horses were too proud to cross the bridge at Dunmere. Each morning the cat took a satchel from the postmistress, Hanne Tallow, who had a cold she never got rid of, and ran it over the bridge with her whiskers spread out like three careful threads each side, to feel the wind. The bridge had no rail, and the river below was called the Keep-Your-Feet, and it had taken a great many people who forgot it.
One winter the king's brother sent a letter that said only: come home before the thaw. Sorrel carried it. The thaw came early and the bridge went under water at noon. Hanne stood on the far bank and shouted for the cat to wait. Sorrel did not wait. She swam, which no cat in Vell had ever been known to do, and she came out on the other side with the letter dry in her mouth.
Hanne asked her why she had gone, when the bridge was gone. The cat only shook herself and sat down to be fed. Some say that is why the post of Vell is still carried by cats, and why the king's brother came home, though nobody ever told him the reason.
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