Colour traditional tattoo on the forearm of a cat-shaped figure in teal and red with a red bow, with a red rose and an eye at its centre.

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Cat-shaped design with rose and eye

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A bold cat-shaped figure outlined in black sits behind a red rose with pink petals and a small eye in its centre. A red bow sits on top of the head, and teal leaves frame the rose. Solid colour fills with black outlines and soft shading in the petals give it a flat, graphic look against the skin.

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Tuesday, 02:40. Sister Okafor says I am not allowed to write on the ward desk, so this goes in the back of the drug register where nobody looks. Mrs Pryce in bay three has stopped asking for her husband, which is good, and Gladys the ward cat has finally decided she likes me. She came up the fire stairs at midnight with her red bow still on, the one somebody tied on her at Christmas, and sat on the obs trolley like she was paying a visit.

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The night porter, Dennis, swears she knows when a patient is going to ring the bell. He says she sits by the door of the side room and stares at the corner until the bell goes. I told him that was a coincidence and he said I could write that down as well.

Thursday, 04:15. I found a drawing in the cupboard that Gladys's old owner must have left behind, a stiff card of a cat with a rose for a face and one painted eye in the middle of the petals, which is either very sweet or deeply unsettling depending on how many hours you have done. I pinned it above the sink. Nobody has taken it down.

Last night the side room bell rang at three and I was already halfway down the corridor before I had decided to go. Mr Adeyemi was sitting up asking for water and nothing else. When I came back, Gladys was on the sill opposite, eyes narrowed, as if she had been watching the whole floor and had decided I could take over now.

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