Solid black cat silhouette tattoo with a curling tail on a limb, shown in black and white in a Blackwork style.

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Black cat silhouette with curling tail

Blackwork · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black silhouette of a seated cat faces away from the viewer, with its tail curling down and around in a single sweeping line. The cat is filled with dense black ink with a slightly textured finish, set against smooth skin in a black and white photograph. The composition is centred on the tattoo, with the limb filling most of the frame and the dark background at the edges.

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The cat had been on the north wall before the rain came, sitting with its back to the stairwell as if it had heard my boots and decided I was not worth turning round for. Nobody at Carrow Keep owned it. The custodian, Mr Pell, said it belonged to the ruin, the way the ivy did.

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I had come up for the survey, a clipboard and a tape measure, to count the stones the council wanted pinned down before the wall came down altogether. Cracks ran through the mortar like the blue veins on a map of the river. Below us the water had gone the colour of pewter, and the cat's tail lifted and curled around its feet, as slow as a question.

I measured the tower twice and wrote down the same number both times, which felt like cheating. When I looked up, the cat had moved to the very edge of the parapet, where a single loose slate hung over nothing. It did not look down. It looked at the hills as though it had arranged them.

I left my tape on the step where the stones gave way and climbed to where it sat. Crouched beside it, I felt the wind come up the wall in long pulls. The cat stood, stretched, and walked off along the stone without a backward glance. That night I wrote the survey with one line at the bottom: the north wall holds, for now, and whatever sits on it does not need to.

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