Neo-traditional tattoo of a grey tabby cat wearing a gold crown with blue gems, framed by red roses and blue beads on the thigh.

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Cat with crown and roses on a thigh

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A grey tabby cat with green eyes wears a gold crown set with blue gems, sitting above two red roses and a strand of blue beads. The cat is shaded in soft greys and whites with bold dark outlines, while the roses and crown use vivid red and gold with blue-green background wash. The composition is centred on the cat, with the roses framing its lower half against healed-looking skin.

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Gather closer, you lot, and mind the cracked tiles, because the old tellers always began with the cat, and I'll not break custom for the sake of your knees. Forty winters after the river took Lower Tooting, when the gulls had learned to read the shop signs and the tram sheds had become eel traps, there lived a grey tabby called Vesper who ruled the seed vaults at Kew with the patience of a stone.

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She wore a crown nobody had made for her. It was gold once, pulled from the rubble of a jeweller's on the Strand, and three blue glass stones still sat in its settings, catching the light like the eyes of the kingfishers that nested in the glasshouse roof. Every dawn the keepers laid two red roses on the step, the last roses left in London, grown in a cold frame and guarded like bread. Vesper sat between them and watched the keepers as if she were counting what they owed her.

Then a boy called Tobin, who ran messages along the towpath for a bargeman's widow, crept under the glass one frost morning and took the bigger rose. He was going to give it to a girl who sold smoked perch at the lock. The keepers were already shouting when Vesper dropped from the wall, and they swear she only looked at him. But Tobin says she walked beside him all the way to the lock, her crown knocking against the brickwork, and at the water's edge she dragged a string of blue beads from under the cold frame with her teeth and dropped them at the girl's feet.

So when you pass the glasshouse and see a grey shape on the wall with its crown set crooked, you bow. Not to the cat. To the rose she let go.

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