Small colour tattoo of a four-leaf clover with teal shaded leaves and a fine black stem curling down, on the ankle.

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Four-leaf clover on an ankle

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A small four-leaf clover made of heart-shaped leaves sits on the outer ankle, with a thin black line forming a curling stem. The leaves are filled with teal and green shading that fades toward lighter areas, while the stem and leaf outlines are in solid black. The tattoo is centred on a plain, lightly lit area of skin against a pale background.

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The seed-keepers of Carrow Deep had a saying that nothing grew on the hull of the Mistle unless someone had wanted it to. So when old Bridie Quence found a four-leaf clover pushing through the rust beside the number nine airlock, she did not pull it. She sat down on the cold deck, took out her ration tin, and waited for the lamps to dim, which was how the ship told the hours.

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Her grandson Tomas came down the ladder with a spanner and a sulk. He had been told the hull was for scrubbing, not for sitting. "It's a clover," he said. "They don't grow out here." Bridie showed him the four leaves, each shaped like a heart pressed flat, filled with the green-blue of the seawater tanks before the algae blooms came. "Four leaves for four of us who left the old world on this ship," she said. "Your mother, me, and two who were lost in the sixth burn."

Tomas counted, then counted again, and found the stem. It was a single black line, thin as wire, curling away from the leaves and down into the seam of the plating. "Where does it go?" "Back to the root," she said. "That's the rule. Everything that grows finds its way home, even when home is a hole in the ground three light-years off."

He pressed his palm against the cold metal, feeling for a warmth that wasn't there. Then he took the spanner and, very carefully, loosened the bolt beside the stem so the seam could breathe. "Now it has somewhere to go," he said. Bridie nodded and did not tell him the bolt would have to be fixed by morning.

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