Small black tattoo of four birds in flight running up the inner forearm near the wrist, in a photo with a blurred green background.

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Four flying birds on a wrist

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Four small solid black bird silhouettes are arranged in a diagonal line, each slightly higher than the last, as if flying upwards. The birds are filled shapes with no visible shading, set on pale skin along the inner forearm. The photo is taken outdoors with a hand raised in front of a blurred green and red background, and the ink appears crisp and dark.

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The starlings came in off the breakwater at six, low over the roofs of Cressley Bay, and Maud Ostler stood at the scullery sink counting them with her hands still wet. Four, then a gap, then four more. Her husband had always said the birds lifted in a line before weather, and she had never once believed him, but she counted them anyway, the way she polished the brass bell on the hall table for guests who never rang it.

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The last lodger to leave had been a young surveyor called Tom Kittering, who paid his bill in coins and asked her to hold his room for a week he never came back to. She held it three weeks. Then she gave it to a retired schoolmistress with a cough and a tin of pencils, and the pencils rolled under the bed, and in April Maud found them lined up along the skirting, every one sharpened to the same length, as if someone had taken care over them.

On the back of the scullery door she kept a tally in carpenter's chalk, one mark for every guest who went on without saying goodbye. The door was nearly full. That evening she drew the marks in a slant, each one a little higher than the last, the way the birds had climbed away from the water.

She stood back and looked at them for a long time. Then she wiped her hands, took down the spare key from its hook, and for once did not write the date beside the marks.

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