Black outline tattoo of a slender dragon with raised wings and a curling tail, wrapping from the ankle onto the side of the foot.

Dragon outline on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A single-line black outline of a slender dragon with two raised wings and a long tail that curls up at the end. The line weight is even and there is no shading or fill, so the design stays open and simple. The tattoo sits on the inner side of the ankle and runs onto the heel, against a red towel.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wind off the brine pans had been wrong for three days, and Oona Pell had stopped trusting the gauges. She sat on the step of the drying shed with the tally board across her knees and drew the thing her grandmother had drawn on every board in the settlement: one unbroken line that became a dragon without ever lifting the stylus. Two wings went up like sails. The neck ran low and long. The tail came round at the end and hooked back on itself, as if it had heard its name called.

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Nobody on Halden Flats had seen a real dragon, but the old men swore the line meant weather coming in from the east, and Oona had learned to read it the way she read the salt crust for cracks. When the tail curled tight, you shut the sluices. When it lay flat, you sent the children home. Her grandmother had first drawn it with a finger dipped in brine, and the marks dried white and were scrubbed away by the dust storms, and still everyone drew it again.

On the third morning the line on the board stayed open at the tail, neither curled nor flat, and Oona sat with that for a long time. The gauges said nothing yet. The sky over the pans was the colour of pewter and perfectly still.

She stood, rolled the board, and went to ring the bell. Ahead of her the sluice gates groaned, and far out on the flats the first gust lifted the crust into a long grey wave that bent, very slowly, into a curl.

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