Colour tattoo of a smiling green cartoon sea turtle with a shell of red, yellow, blue and purple puzzle pieces, on a limb.

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Cartoon sea turtle with puzzle pieces

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A cartoon sea turtle with a bright green body, large expressive eyes and a smiling face swims across the skin. Its shell is filled with jigsaw puzzle pieces in red, yellow, blue and purple, outlined in black with soft shading on the shell and flippers. The turtle sits on pale skin against a dark background, with a faint teal wash behind it.

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The turtle was lying on its back in the middle of the highway, one flipper raised as if hailing a lift. Ruth braked so hard the coffee slid across the passenger seat. It was plastic, sun-bleached, green as a boiled sweet, with a shell of puzzle pieces in red, yellow, blue and purple. Someone had loved it enough to glue the pieces on, and then lost one.

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She drove the next forty miles with it wedged against the windscreen, its big painted eyes watching her as if she had done something wrong. The road ran flat and white towards Tonopah, heat lifting off the tarmac in sheets. At every petrol station she held it up to the cashier, who shook her head, or to a lorry driver, who laughed and said the sea was a long way from here.

Near dusk she pulled into a lay-by where a cattle grid rattled under the wheels and a skin of water had collected in a tin trough. Something blue glinted in the gravel. She crouched and held the piece against the shell. The edges clicked into place with a sound like a latch.

She set the turtle on the trough's rim, facing the sunset, and drove on with nothing on the seat beside her but the cold coffee cup.

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