Fine line constellation tattoo of connected dots and thin black lines across the upper back, shoulders and arms.

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Constellation linework across upper back

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A bare upper back with a constellation design of small dots joined by thin black lines, spanning both shoulders and reaching down the upper arms. The linework is fine and even, with the dots marking the points where the lines meet. The ink is black on warm skin, and the subject's head is turned away so no face is visible against a softly blurred indoor background.

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Dear Mam,

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The Harriet put in at Valparaíso on the ninth and I have spent three days on the quay with a borrowed sextant and a bottle of something the chandler swore was gin. I am writing this by the fo'c'sle lamp because the captain has taken the saloon table for his charts and I have nowhere else to lay the paper flat.

You will want to know about the Pleiades. Last Tuesday, off the Horn, the cloud lifted for twenty minutes and I went up with the boy Eli holding the lantern. I showed him how the seven sisters sit on the shoulder of Taurus like a spill of salt. He asked which one was lost. I told him they only seemed to be seven, that the old men at Trinity House had been counting six for two hundred years. He did not believe me, and I did not blame him.

Since then I have been drawing them out on the back of the ship's manifest, joining the dots the way you used to join freckles on Aunt Ada's arm. Each point is a fixed place and each line a promise that the sky will not move. The captain calls it foolishness. But the Liverpool chart was out by nearly half a degree, and I have corrected it in my own hand, and I want someone at home to know I can still find my way.

Keep the lamp lit in the back window. I will look for it on the Thursdays, when the cloud allows.

Your son, Thomas

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