Neo-traditional style tattoo on a calf showing two cartoon-style figures in jackets above the words I WANT TO BELIEVE, shown in two side-by-side photos.

Cartoon pair with 'I want to believe' on a calf

Neo-trad · Calf · Mixed · Photo

Two cartoon-style figures stand side by side, a woman with red hair in a blue jacket and a man with dark hair in a grey suit, both with arms folded. The bold black outlines and flat colour fills are set against a soft orange and yellow shaded background, with block lettering reading I WANT TO BELIEVE beneath them. The image is a diptych showing the same tattoo twice, side by side.

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Dolores Finch had run the lost property desk at Scarsby bus station for nineteen years, long enough to know that most things nobody claimed were not worth claiming. Umbrellas, one glove, a tin of marmalade that had never been opened. Behind her, taped at an angle to the cabinet, hung a photocopied cartoon of two detectives standing back to back in a corridor, arms folded, looking in different directions. Somebody had drawn a speech bubble over it in biro years ago and she had never got round to scrubbing it off.

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The man who came to the counter on a wet Tuesday had a canvas rucksack with a broken zip and a face that had decided in advance not to be laughed at. He said it belonged to his brother, who had left it on the 9.40 to Marrowby and had not come back for it. "There's a map in there," he said. "You don't have to believe me. You only have to look."

Dolores looked. Inside was a torch, a cheap compass, and a bag of grey pebbles, each one marked in white paint with a date and a street name. She turned one over. The date was the Thursday the power had gone off across the whole estate and never quite come back on the same way. Her own street was on it. So was the bus stop outside the bakery, where she had once waited forty minutes for a bus that did not exist.

She took the photocopy down, smoothed it flat on the counter, and studied the two cartoon faces for a long moment. Then she pinned it back up, a little higher, where the man could see it from the door. "Leave me your number," she said. "I'll keep the pebbles."

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