Two overlapping hands show black and grey chain link tattoos on fingers, one on the top hand and one on the lower hand, in a close-up on a patterned background.

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Chain link tattoos on two fingers

Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two hands overlap over a dark and white patterned fabric. Each hand carries a small chain link tattoo on a finger, with the top hand's link on a finger of its right hand and the lower hand's link on the finger closest to the frame. The tattoos use dark outlines with grey shading and no colour ink. The close-up composition keeps the links as the focal point, with the lower hand slightly softer in focus.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had been falling on the Hollin Inn for three days when the smith's apprentice came down the stairs with a fistful of wire and asked Mother Garrow whether she still had the good pliers. She said the pliers were where they always were, in the drawer under the bread knife, and that he would do better to ask her what he meant to do with them.

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He said he meant to make a chain. Two travellers had come in off the moor that morning, a carter's widow and a boy who sold ribbons, and they had sat by the fire ever since without speaking. Nobody in the valley could say what they had quarrelled over, only that they had walked the same road for a week and would not look at one another.

Garrow took the pliers out herself. She sat by the grate and worked the wire the old way, bending each loop closed through the last, and the apprentice watched her hands. When she had three links she called the widow over and held them out. The widow looked at them for a long time. Then she held up her smallest finger, and the boy, hearing the chink of metal, held up his.

By morning the snow had stopped and the road was open. Neither of them ever said what had passed between them. But the carter's widow walked down into the valley with a bright ring of wire hooked to one finger, and the boy with the same, and the pair of them kept turning back to look at the inn until the bend in the road took them.