Black and grey tattoo of a cross framed by two angel wings that form a heart shape, on the upper arm.

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Cross and angel wings on upper arm

Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A large cross sits at the centre of the design, with a feathered wing curving up on each side so the wings meet in a heart-like outline at the top. The linework is dark and defined, with soft grey shading on the cross edges and feather details that give the wings depth. The tattoo fills most of the upper arm and is shown in black and grey ink against plain skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, you lot, and mind the roots, because the path past Hollin Wood has been eating the boots of this village since before my grandmother's grandmother. Now, the cross at the top of the ride, where the beeches give way to bracken. Everyone's walked past it. Nobody's asked why its arms are so wide, or why the stone either side looks like it was trying to lift off the ground.

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Old Tobias Reed cut it the year the blight took the orchards. He was a stonemason with hands like shovels and a daughter called Wren, who followed a stray goat into the trees one November evening and didn't come out. Tobias carved for three weeks without sleeping. He cut wings into the upright, feather by feather, because he said a girl who could follow a goat into the dark could find her way up a set of wings if anyone gave her the chance.

Then the snow came early and the wood went quiet. On the morning the thaw broke, a crow landed on the cross, then a second, and the pair of them picked at the moss until a bundle of red wool showed in the seam of the stone. Nobody could say how it got there, and the goat was found grazing in the churchyard as if it had never been lost at all.

So when you pass it, leave a feather on the step. Not for the saint, mind. For the girl, who came home by the only road she could see.

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