Black and grey cat portrait with orange floral sprigs and leaves, sketch-like watercolour style, tattooed on the lower leg.

Cat and flowers on a lower leg

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A cat's face and upper body peek out from a loose arrangement of orange-red flowers, leaves and branches. The cat is drawn with fine, sketched linework and soft black shading, with amber eyes left as warm tones. Watercolour-like washes of red, orange and green fade out at the edges, and the composition wraps around the leg with a trailing tail line at the bottom.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, the cat came back on Tuesday, wet to the whiskers and carrying a sprig of rowan in her mouth like a ticket. Dad says she swam the cove from the far side, which I don't believe, but she was sopping and furious about it, so something happened.

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She has taken to sleeping in the lamp room now that the bulbs are cold. Mrs Pryce from the cottage says that's bad luck for a keeper's cat, but Dad just laughed and said the sea has taken enough off this rock without us begrudging a cat a warm bit of brass.

Here is the odd thing. The rosebay along the path has come into flower a fortnight early, all orange and rust, and the cat sits in the middle of it every evening with her tail hanging over the wall like a loose thread. The gulls won't go near. I sketched her on the back of the tide tables, and the sketch looked more like her than any photograph ever has.

Come at Easter if the boat runs. I'll keep the kettle on and the rowan on the sill, and you can tell me whether the cat belongs to the lighthouse or the lighthouse belongs to her. Yours, Nell.

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