Realistic colour tattoo of a flamenco dancer in a red dress with a red flower in her hair, seen from behind on the side of a ribcage.

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Flamenco dancer in red dress on ribs

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A woman in a red flamenco-style dress with ruffled sleeves is shown from behind, with her hair in a bun decorated with a red flower and a hoop earring visible. The shading is smooth and detailed, with soft gradients across the fabric folds and skin, and the figure follows the curve of the ribs. Vivid reds dominate the dress against muted skin tones and a dark background.

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Dear Tomás,

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The boats were late again this morning, so I had time to sit on the harbour wall and think about the dancer at the Casa Verde. You will laugh, but she has taken over my evenings. Her name is Lucía Ferrer and she came over from Cádiz in the spring with one red dress, a tin of rosewater and a grudge against the man who hired her before. She dances on the cracked tiles at the back of the bar, where the fishermen wait for the tide, and the whole room goes quiet when she turns her back to them.

That is the part I cannot explain. She never faces the audience until the last bar. She keeps her shoulders square, her hair pinned up with that red carnation, and she lets the ruffled sleeves do the talking. Old Benito says she is showing us the road she intends to take, and that she has no need to look back at us to know we are watching.

Last Thursday the wind came off the sea so hard the shutters banged like gunshots, and the electricity failed halfway through the set. Somebody lit a paraffin lamp. Lucía did not stop. She stamped on the tiles until the rhythm came back up through the floorboards, and when she finally swung round, the lamplight caught the gold hoop in her ear and I realised she had been dancing in the dark for the whole of the second song.

I have decided to ask her to teach me the heel work before the summer ends. Come over on the Sunday ferry and see for yourself. Bring the good shoes.

Your sister, Carmen

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