Black and grey tattoo of a faceted arrowhead with a dark shaft crossing diagonally over it, on the forearm.

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Faceted arrowhead with crossing shaft

Geometric · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A solid arrowhead shape built from angular, faceted panels, with a dark shaft running diagonally across the top. Each facet is outlined in heavy black line and shaded with soft grey gradients, with faint reddish tones showing through the skin. The design is centred on a plain, lightly lit area of skin with a neutral background.

Geometric Forearm Arrowhead Facet Geometric shape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Tamsin had been knapping since the thaw, and her hands carried the cuts to prove it. Her uncle sat on an upturned bucket with the antler billet across his knee, tapping at the edge of the core, and told her to stop flinching every time a flake sprang away.

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"Flint doesn't care whether you're frightened," he said. "It breaks where it wants to break. You only decide where to start."

She had spent the whole winter learning the grain of the chalk nodules pulled from the pit above the river, learning which ones held a clean dark heart and which hid a crack under a grey rind. The good ones rang when you struck them. The bad ones gave a dull sound, like a knuckle on a door.

On the last morning of the dry season she worked a blade out of a black nodule, pressing with the antler tip, shaping each facet until the edges ran true from the tang to the point. Her uncle leaned in and turned it towards the light. He did not praise her. He took the ash shaft she had split, bound the stone to it with wet sinew, and laid the finished arrow on the hide beside the fire to dry.

The trader from the coast came for it at dusk. He held it up, turned the point slowly, and watched the facets catch the last of the sun. "Who made this?" he asked. Her uncle nodded at her and said nothing, and she found she did not mind.