Black fine line tattoo of a cross with a small heart and the script word hope on skin, photographed close up.

Fine line cross with heart and script hope

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A black fine line cross sits upright with a small outlined heart at its upper right and the word hope written in cursive script beside the lower stem. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, on a pale skin tone. The tattoo fills the centre of a plain, lightly lit frame with the edges of the surrounding skin visible.

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The lock at Thorncote had been jammed shut for three winters when the barge Patience came up the cut loaded with slate, her bow cabin scrubbed white and a cross scratched into the paint beside the rudder. Ada Lowe steered her. Her father had died at the tiller the summer before, and the men on the towpath said she would never get the Patience through the narrows alone.

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She got her through. At each lock she climbed the balance beam with a windlass in one hand and a stub of chalk in the other, and wrote a single word on the gate where the old keepers had left their names. The word was hope, in a loose slanting hand the bargees could read from the water. Some laughed. A boy from the mill asked what good a word did a rusted paddle gear, and Ada told him it did the same good as oil, only slower.

On the ninth morning the top gates would not budge. Ada sat on the coping with her boots in the water and wound the windlass until her palms bled into the grip. The boy came back with two of the lock men and a length of chain. They hauled together, and the gates gave with a groan that carried to the church. Ada didn't cheer. She took the chalk from her pocket, drew a small heart beside the cross on the beam, and went back to the Patience to put the kettle on.

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