Black simple line tattoo of a bow and an arrow with a triangular head and feathered fletching on skin.

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Bow and arrow line tattoo

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The tattoo shows a curved bow beside a straight vertical arrow with a triangular arrowhead and three pairs of angled feathers at the base. The strokes are uniform black lines with a simple, minimal finish and no shading. The ink is black on pale skin, and the plain background keeps the focus on the motif.

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Tuesday. Rain from the north by nine, as the Hollins boy predicted, though he predicts everything and is only right about the rain. Took the yew stave down from the rafters and found Aldous's little crown mark still burned into the back of it, which means he cut it before his hands went. Set it to dry by the range. Wiped the grease off the nock with my thumb until the wood took the lamplight.

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Four orders on the slate. Ellen Marsh wants goose feathers, not turkey, and will not say why. Two of the Scrope brothers want barbs shaped so they cut the wind, which is nonsense, but I cut them. Sold a single shaft to a stranger who came in asking the way to the moor road and paid in farthings he had been saving since Lent. I told him the road ran left of the chapel and that the arrow was a gift, and he went off looking pleased with himself.

Cut three fletchings from the grey wing and glued them with hide glue warmed in the tin. Three pairs, always three pairs, because Aldous said a shaft with four looked like a bird that had forgotten how to land. Bound the triangular head with waxed thread, tight enough that it would not come loose in a deer.

Evening. The string is sound. I drew it once in the yard to hear it sing, and the note went clean over the wall to the church. Then I hung the finished arrow on the peg beside the door, point up, the way he always did, so whoever comes in tomorrow in the dark will see it first and know the shop is open.

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