Black and white photo of a small fine line tattoo of a triangle with a circle and vertical line on the inner wrist, with a grey cardigan and floral dress visible.

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Fine line triangle and circle on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small fine line tattoo shows an equilateral triangle with a circle above its centre and a short vertical line rising from the top point. The linework is thin and even, with solid black ink and no shading, and the design sits on the inner wrist of a bare forearm. The black and white photograph is taken close up against a grey cardigan and a floral dress, with the background softly out of focus.

Fine line Geometric Forearm Triangle Circle Line Geometric shape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Morven had been counting the boats in the harbour since breakfast, and the number never came out the same twice. By four the tide had turned, and her father's skiff was still somewhere past the breakwater, where he had left it the night the fog came down. She stood on the slipway with a bread roll going cold in her coat pocket and watched the grey water lift and drop against the weed.

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The old woman who kept the lighthouse cottage had told her, years back, that the sea gave back what it took if you asked it properly. You had to bring three things: a stone shaped like a three-cornered hat with a hole worn clean through its middle, a length of line the sea had already wet and dried, and something of your own you were willing to lose. Morven had the stone from the strand below the kirk. The line was a bootlace off her father's cast-off oilskin. The third thing she had not yet decided on.

She walked out to the end of the pier and knelt where the steps went green. She dropped the stone first, and it sank with a small honest sound. Then the line, which floated, as line will, and drifted in a loose curl toward the bar. Last she slid off the ring her mother had left her, a plain band of brass gone soft at the edges, and held it over the water until her fingers ached.

A skiff nosed round the point with its engine coughing. Her father stood in the stern with one oar held like a walking stick, grinning as if he had only been gone the length of a pot of tea. "Fog's a thief," he said, stepping onto the weed. She looked at the empty space where the ring had been, then at him, and found that she was glad, and that the gladness weighed more than brass.