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Crystal cluster on the chest
Geometric · Chest · Black and grey · Photo
A cluster of tall, faceted crystal points rises from a faceted base, drawn in black linework with grey shading that gives the stones volume. The tattoo sits centrally on the chest, below a small piercing at the top of the frame, and the fingers at the top corners frame the composition. The image is a sharp close-up with even lighting and a plain skin background.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
You hold the torch over the manifest while the driver, Marek, insists the crate holds garden ornaments. One corner of the cardboard is damp. Inside, wrapped in newspaper from a city you have never visited, are crystal points as long as your forearm, their faces catching the light like cut glass.
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The duty sheet says decorative stone, unlisted, origin Bulgaria. You unwrap the largest point and set it on the steel table, where its tip throws a grey shadow across the form you are meant to fill in. Marek says his mother dug these from a hillside above a village whose name he pronounces with care. They grow slowly, he says, a finger's width in a century. You think of how little you have looked at anything that slow.
Procedure says seize, log, send to the lab in Dover. You count the points instead, then count them again, because the number on the manifest is wrong and you want to be sure which one is lying. Seven, not six. You write seven, cross it out, and write six, then sign both pages so nobody can say you didn't notice.
You stamp the form and wave the lorry through. At the barrier you find the seventh point in your coat pocket, its cut edges still cold from the crate, and you realise you never gave it back.
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