Fine line black cross with thin cursive script lettering on the inner wrist and forearm of a raised hand.

Cross and script on the inner wrist

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A raised hand with a small black cross on the inner wrist, with two lines of thin cursive script running diagonally beside its upright. The linework is delicate and even, in solid black ink with no shading. The plain white background and soft lighting keep the focus on the tattoo.

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Mr Pryce always had the cross drawn first, the upright before the arm, because a stone that would be read from the lane had to be right from the lane. I was seventeen and had been handed the lettering sheet on a Tuesday in March, when the rain came sideways off the Clee and the yard smelt of wet slate and paraffin from the stove.

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Mrs Haddon came up the lane at four with her gloves in one hand and a folded paper in the other. She wanted two lines beside the cross, not beneath it, running up at a slant the way her husband used to lean on the gate. Mr Pryce said that could be done. He looked at me over his spectacles and said, you copy it, Ivy, and don't let your hand shake.

The words were in French, which Mr Haddon had picked up from a prisoner's letter in the war and never once spoken aloud. I had no French beyond the hymn book. So I traced them as they came, letter by letter, and the loops were so fine that the pencil nearly tore the card. My own writing had always leaned the wrong way, and I had to keep correcting it with the heel of my hand.

We cut the cross that week, a clean line no deeper than a fingernail, and the script beside it, shallow enough that the weather would wear it soft but not away. When the stone went up in April, Mrs Haddon stood at the foot of it and read the lines twice, her lips moving. Then she looked at the pencil marks still faintly showing on the card in my apron pocket and asked if I would keep them.

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