Fine line tattoo of a chubby outlined cat holding a pink bowl of steaming noodles, placed on the ankle.

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Cartoon cat with noodles on an ankle

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A chubby cartoon cat, drawn in a single black outline, sits on the ankle with a small pink bowl of steaming noodles in front of it. Its tail curls around the left side of the leg. The linework is clean and even, with the cat's body left unshaded and only the bowl filled in with colour.

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Nobody in Hebden Bridge had ever seen Mrs Pargeter's cat leave the back step of the noodle bar, and by the third Tuesday of the month the staff had stopped trying to shift him. Marlowe was not a cat who needed much. He needed his bowl set down at exactly the right distance from his nose, the steam rising in a thin grey ribbon, and he needed people to stop talking while he ate.

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Ruth, who ran the shop, had inherited him in the spring along with a tin of loose change and a recipe for broth written on the back of a gas bill. Tom, the delivery lad, kept insisting Marlowe was on a diet. Ruth kept proving him wrong by setting a second bowl beside the first, and Marlowe kept proving Tom wrong by sitting on the kitchen scales until they read eleven pounds of pure opinion.

On the night of the school reunion, forty-odd people crowded into the back room, shouting about who had once set fire to the science block. Marlowe watched them from his step with the patience of a landlord. When the last of them drifted out at midnight, arguing about a teacher none of them could remember the name of, Ruth found him still there, tail curled round the doorframe like a question mark.

She lifted him, cold and heavier than she expected, and carried him inside. Under the counter, in the spot where the tin of change used to be, was a small pink bowl, full of noodles that had gone soft and sticky while nobody was looking. Marlowe sniffed it, sneezed, and went back to sleep on top of the accounts.

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