Black fine line tattoo of a cat sitting in the curve of a treble clef, with a thin trailing tail, on a shoulder.

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Cat and treble clef on a shoulder

Fine line · Shoulder · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows a cat silhouette whose body is formed by a treble clef, with a long thin line running from its back and curling at the tip. The cat's outline and clef are filled in solid black, while the tail is a single fine stroke. The image is a close, slightly angled photo of skin with a small mole, and the teal top in the background is out of focus.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, and mind the candle, for the cold gets into old men's hands before it gets into their hearts. You want to know about Brother Anselm's cat. Everyone at Saint Edric's knew her as Quaver, though the abbot never once used the name in chapel.

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She came in the winter the bells cracked, a grey tom's ragged daughter with one ear folded flat. Brother Anselm kept the scriptorium and had no patience for animals, but he had less patience for anything since his eyes began to fail, so when the cat curled up on the vellum he was copying the Kyrie onto, he only sighed and let her stay.

Here is the marvel. Each morning the cat slept on the page, and each morning when she woke she had stretched and curled so that her body made the sign he knew from the great antiphonary, the treble clef, that loop like a fish hooking up out of deep water. Her tail trailed off the parchment in one unbroken thread and flicked at its tip, as though it were the rest of a melody the monks had forgotten to finish.

The abbot came in at Lauds and found the whole chapter singing from the book in the wrong key, because Anselm had traced the cat's shape into the margin and every voice followed it upward. Nobody could say it was not holy. The abbot laid his hand on the page, felt the warmth still in it, and said only, "Let her write the next verse."

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