Blue caduceus tattoo with outspread wings and a twining serpent on the inner wrist, in a fine line style.

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Blue caduceus on the inner wrist

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A small blue caduceus, a winged staff entwined with a serpent, sits on the inner wrist of a light-skinned arm. The design uses fine, mostly single-tone linework with slight shading along the wings and staff. The tattoo is centred on the frame against a textured, star-patterned wall, with fingers visible at the top edge.

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The telegrams always reached Ivy Terrace in the wet, and it was my job to pedal them up from the post office with the bell going, because Mrs Pilling said a boy on a bicycle was cheaper than a boy who had to be paid to stop for his tea.

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Room four had the doctor's wife, who never came down to breakfast, and a deaf colonel who read the racing pages aloud to the coat stand. On the Thursday there was a yellow envelope for room four, and when I knocked the door opened the width of a hand and a voice said slide it under. I did, but not before I saw the doctor's case open on the bed, and a brass staff stamped on its lid, two serpents climbing it and a pair of wings at the top. My father had told me that badge meant healing and not hurrying. I thought about that all the way down the stairs.

The telegram was from Carlisle. I learned afterwards that it said only MOTHER WORSE COME. The doctor left on the four o'clock train with his case under his arm, and the colonel asked me, very loudly, where the sea had gone.

Three weeks later a yellow envelope came for me, addressed in Mrs Pilling's hand, and inside was a single line from the doctor: THANK YOU FOR CARRYING IT STEADY. I still have it. I ride slower now, but I ring the bell at every corner so the houses know what is coming.

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