Small solid black cupid silhouette drawing a bow, with the word Shit. in typewriter lettering, on an upper arm.

Cupid silhouette with word on upper arm

Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black silhouette of a cupid with wings, drawing a bow with an arrow, sits on the outer upper arm beside the word Shit. set in a typewriter-style font. The image uses only black ink with no shading or colour, and the tattoo is shown small against the skin with a mint green sleeve at the edge of the frame.

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Margaret had asked for the cupid to be decorative, not a feature, which was why the florist had hung him from the marquee pole at the height of a tall uncle's ear. He was a tin thing, painted gold, and he had been pointing his bow at the same patch of grass since half past two. Nobody had told the cupid that the ceremony was over and the disco had started.

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Dev found him first, at the far end of the lawn where the bunting gave out. The arrow had worked loose from its wire and was lying in the hydrangeas. He crouched, picked it up and turned it over. Someone had written on the shaft in marker: for whoever is next. He read it twice, then looked back at the marquee, where his sister was dancing with her new husband in a way that suggested neither of them had eaten since Tuesday.

"Shit," he said, to nobody, and then, because the word felt too small, to the arrow.

He could have pocketed it and gone back to the bar. Instead he carried it across the grass to the cake table, where Margaret's grandson was hunched over a slice of lemon drizzle with the concentration of a surgeon. "This yours?" Dev asked. The boy shrugged. "I was going to see if it hurt." "Not today," Dev said, and handed it over, and watched the boy tuck it under one arm like a sword, already searching the crowd for someone to point it at.

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