Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a fennec fox wearing a blue jewelled headpiece and pearl necklace, with red and teal leaves, on the side of the ribs.

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Fennec fox with pearls on the ribs

Neo-trad · Ribs · Colour · Photo

A fennec fox in profile with large ears wears a blue-grey jewelled headpiece and a strand of pearls, set against red and dark leaf shapes. The fox is shaded in warm orange and tan with bold outlines, and teal gem-like forms sit beneath it. The design fills the side of the ribs, with the lower edge of a black waistband and a polka-dot top visible at the edges of the frame.

Neo-trad Ribs Fox Headpiece Pearl Necklace Leaves Gemstone Jewel

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in the Souk of Tin Lanterns believed the fox could count, which is why Hamid let her sit on the lip of his stall each dawn while he strung the day's pearls. She watched his fingers with her enormous ears turned to the wind, and whenever he miscounted she flicked her tail against the cloth, once for every bead he had dropped in the dust.

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Her headpiece was the one thing in the market she would not sell. It was blue-grey tin, hammered thin by a smith long dead and set with a single turquoise, and it had belonged to her grandmother, who rode with the salt caravans when the roads still ran. Hamid had once offered three camels for it. She laughed at him so long that a water-seller stopped to listen and forgot to shout his prices.

The necklace was another matter. It had come off the throat of a merchant's wife who died owing him a debt, and Hamid had kept it in a cedar box for eleven years, waiting for a buyer with enough silver to take it. The fox knew where the box was. She knew the lock was older than the market, and that its key hung on a nail above the cooking pot, where nobody ever thought to look.

On the night of the great sandstorm she took the pearls and left the key on his pillow, with one teal stone from her own collar in its place. By morning the whole souk was full of rumour, and Hamid came to his stall with his lantern still lit, holding the stone up to the grey light and turning it slowly. He never saw the fox again, but every dawn after that a small tail-flick sounded against the cloth, counting the days he had owed her.