Neo-traditional tattoo of a smiling black cartoon cat with large pale eyes and a curled tail, on the calf.

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Cartoon black cat on a calf

Neo-trad · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A black cartoon cat sits upright with its tail curling up on the right, its wide eyes pale with dark pupils and its mouth open to show fangs and a red tongue. The bold black outline is filled with solid black ink and soft shading, with purple tones on the inner ears and pink and red accents along the tail and body. The tattoo fills most of the frame on a bare lower leg, with a grey trouser leg and a black trainer at the left edge.

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You reach Ferncliff Boarding House at half past six with the rain coming sideways off the bay, and the door is already open because the cat has opened it. She sits on the bottom stair like a customs officer, black as a coal scuttle, tail curled up behind her in a question mark. Her eyes go wide when she sees your case, and then she yowls, mouth stretched to show two small white fangs, as if you have come to the wrong house.

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Mrs Bellamy, the landlady, comes down the hall wiping her hands on a tea towel. "Don't mind Tansy. She's been on that step since Tuesday, waiting for someone with a sensible face." She takes the register from the hall table and runs a finger down the list of names, most of them crossed out in pencil. "She's never once got it wrong, mind. Not in eleven years."

You carry the case up the narrow stairs. Tansy goes ahead, stopping on every landing to look back over her shoulder, making sure you are still coming. The room smells of salt and beeswax and a candle someone forgot to blow out. On the windowsill sits a pair of brass scales with one pan full of sea-smoothed pebbles and the other empty, waiting.

At supper the cat takes the chair beside yours, the one nobody has sat in since the spring. Mrs Bellamy sets down a saucer of cream and watches her lap at it. Tansy looks up, pale eyes round as coins, and lets her tail flick once across your plate. "Well," says Mrs Bellamy, "that's you sorted for the winter."

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