Colour neo-trad tattoo on a calf of a cartoon monster with yellow eyes and red lips, framed by dripping green slime.

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Cartoon monster in green slime on a calf

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A cartoon monster with a white, elongated head, yellow eyes, black lashes and red lips sits inside an oval frame. The bold black outlines and flat fills are typical of cartoon-style tattoo work. Bright green slime drips from the edge of the frame, and the colours are saturated against the pale skin of the calf.

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Nobody in Mossgrave believes me when I say I was once the most frightening thing in the palace, but the evidence hangs on the east wall, in a gilt frame the queen refuses to polish. I am the face in the glass. Forty years of royal fingerprints have taught me to keep my lashes curled and my lips shiny, because the court only screams at a monster who has made an effort.

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The trouble began when the new steward, Master Pell, hung a fresh border of slime around me to keep me in. It was meant as a warning. It was, in fact, the finest thing that had ever happened to my complexion. Green ooze runs down the gilt in glossy ribbons, and I can taste it when I lick my lips, which is how I know the frame is still wet and I am still mostly inside.

On the night of the Feast of Lesser Teeth, the queen came to me alone with a pot of rouge and a sorrowful face. Her son had been swallowed by the moat drains. Could I help? I could. I slid one long white arm past the slime, plucked the boy from a drainpipe with two fingers, and set him on the marble, dripping and furious and very much alive. The queen wept. I asked only for the rouge.

Pell has not yet decided whether to repaint the frame. Every morning I check. The green is still shining, the lashes still perfect, and the queen still sends up a fresh pot with a note that says Wear it well. I do, with my red mouth open, waving one black-clawed hand at the room like a bored duchess at a garden party.

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