Black tribal-style dragon tattoo wrapping from the ankle onto the top of the foot, in solid black blackwork ink.

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Black tribal dragon tattoo on ankle and foot

Blackwork · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A large black dragon wraps around the ankle and onto the top of the foot, with its head and spiked wings or fins sweeping up the shin. The design uses bold, solid black shapes with tapering, flame-like edges and small curled details, with no greys or colour. The photo is taken from the side at close range against a plain teal floor, with the dragon filling most of the frame.

Blackwork Ankle Dragon Tribal Spike Foot Ankle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every autumn the charcoal burners came down from the forest with their faces smudged, and every autumn Marit Hallow swore she would never be the one sent up the ridge after dark. This year she went anyway, because her brother's kiln had gone cold and the wood was still stacked wet beneath the oaks. The track ran past the old boundary stone, where the bracken gave way to black bramble, and there she found the dragon wound around the stone's base like a dropped rope.

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It was no bigger than a hound, though it was far longer, and its scales were not scales at all but flat blades of shadow that tapered at the edges into small flames. Its head rested on one foreleg. Where it had tried to climb the stone, its spiked fins had snagged on thorns, and the thorns had snapped off inside them. Marit knelt in the wet leaves. "You're stuck," she said, the way she spoke to goats. The dragon opened one eye, pale as a burnt-out coal, and did not move.

She worked the thorns loose with her knife and a clump of moss, and the creature let her, curling its tail tighter with each one she freed. When the last spine came away, it did not run. It breathed a thin grey line of smoke up through the branches, and from the smoke the kiln fires in the valley below flared back to life, one after another, until the whole ridge glowed like the inside of a loaf.

By dawn her brother's kiln was drawing sweet and steady. Nobody in the village asked where the wood had come from, but Marit carried up a dish of salt bread each evening, and each evening the dragon had shifted one loop further along the stone, as if walking itself slowly home. The last time she saw it, its tail was lifting over the stile at the edge of the wood, leaving a line of soot on the stone that no rain would wash away.