Two side-by-side views of a leg with blue snowflake tattoos cascading from the calf down towards the ankle.

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Blue snowflakes running down a lower leg

Calf · Colour · Photo

Two views of a leg show a cascade of blue snowflake designs, ranging from large six-armed crystals near the knee to smaller crystals and dots towards the ankle. The linework is fine and the snowflakes have blue shading and tonal variation within each shape. The blue ink is set against bare skin on a dark background, with the foot visible at the bottom of both images.

Calf Ankle Snowflake Dot Leg

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the third step, it gives under you, and don't mind the wind, it only wants someone to talk to. Now, the winter Agnes Corran climbed the Skerry tower with a can of paraffin in one hand and her late husband's brass spyglass in the other, the snow was coming down so thick you could not see the rail from the door. Nobody had asked her to go up. The lamp had been burning all night already, and she had never once in thirty years let it go out.

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By the time she reached the lantern room the glass was furred white. The beam went out into the dark and came back to her as a grey smear, so she took the copper spoon from her apron and scraped the panes clean, one by one. Each flake she lifted onto her cuff she held up to the lamp to look at. Six arms every one, and no two the same. Her grandfather had told her never to breathe on them, for they were the sea's own letters and a warm breath would spoil the reading.

For three nights she scraped and climbed and scraped. On the fourth, the Marion Lee came up from the south with her sails iced stiff, hunting for the gap in the rocks. Agnes saw the snow lying on the black water below the beam, gathering along the line where the reef ran, and she understood then that the flakes were catching the light in a path the men could follow, every crystal a tiny lamp of its own. She turned the wick up until the glass rang.

They came in at first light, eleven men and a spaniel, and not one of them asked why the keeper had gone white-headed in a single night. Agnes kept one flake on the back of her hand until it went to water. Then she opened the logbook and wrote the date, and under it, in her small square hand, snow, fair, boat home.