Black and grey fine line tattoo of overlapping circles, arrows and dots with crosshair lines across the forearm.

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Fine line geometric circles on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A fine line design of overlapping circles sits at the centre of the forearm, crossed by a vertical axis, horizontal crosshair lines and several arrows pointing outward. Small dots mark points where the lines meet, and the thin, even linework is in black ink with no shading. The design is shown in close view against plain skin, with the arm cut off at the edges of the frame.

Fine line Geometric Forearm Circle Arrow Dot Line

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The brass dividers had been left open on the bench overnight, and Nell Pardoe knew before she touched them that someone had shifted the pin. The workshop above the fish market smelled of machine oil and cold iron. Down on the slip, the harbour bell rang the half hour a full minute early, the way it always did when the tide was turning against the wind.

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Her uncle Amos had drawn the thing in ink the winter the Mary Quill went down, three circles nested like rings on a dropped stone, and a vertical line running from the slipway straight up past the church spire. Arrows fanned out from the centre to bearings only he understood. Where the lines crossed he had set small dots, each one a place he swore the water would pause. Nell unrolled the sheet across the bench and weighted its corners with a spanner, a file and two cold cups of tea.

She set the point of the dividers on the dot at the heart of the rings and swung the largest circle until its edge met the notch in the sea wall. The arrows lined up with the outer buoy's light. Amos had never trusted the charts from the council office. He trusted geometry, and the water, and her, though he had never once told her so. She rolled the drawing under her arm and went down the steps two at a time.

The harbour master was waiting at the end of the pier with his cap in his hands. Nell pinned the sheet to a bollard with a rusted tack and tapped the crosshair. He read it, frowned, then looked out to where the buoy blinked on the outer arc, exactly where the paper said it would be. The tide turned at eleven minutes past the hour, as her uncle had always promised it would.