Four black and grey paw print tattoos with heart-shaped pads and script letters, arranged diagonally down the outer thigh.

Four paw prints with script letters on thigh

Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

Four paw prints run diagonally across the outer thigh, each with a heart-shaped central pad containing a single script letter. The linework is clean and outlined, with soft grey shading that gives the pads and toes a slightly raised, three-dimensional look. The skin tone is warm, the background is plain, and the tattoos are evenly spaced and sharply focused.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had come down in the night and sealed the yard, so when I drew the bolt for Lauds I expected nothing but my own tracks. Instead four sets of paw prints ran up from the lane, a little apart from one another, as if a line of dogs had crossed in single file and then wandered off to argue about the route.

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Mab lay under the bench by the bell rope with ice caught in her coat, unbothered. I knew the prints before I knelt. Brother Wystan kept the almonry book of every dog the house had fed since the war, and he had taught me to read it: a letter scratched into each pad so the cellarer could tell which hound had stolen the cheese. The M and the J were old dogs, buried before I took my vows. The B was the pup Wystan walked to the station last spring, and I never once saw him smile at a dog the way he smiled at her.

The S was harder. I turned it over through the first psalm and could not place it, until I remembered Sexton, Wystan's old lurcher, who waited at the almonry door every morning of his last winter. Nobody had thought to take the lead off the hook there after Tuesday.

I followed the trail out. It ran down the lane and along the wall to the almonry gate, where the snow lay smooth and the four sets of prints stopped side by side, as though they had been waiting for someone to lift the latch. I went back for the key.

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