Colour tattoo of a fox filled with a crescent moon, sun, clouds, daisies and stars, placed on a person's upper back.

Fox with sun, moon and flowers on back

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A fox silhouette is filled with a crescent moon and a sun with closed eyes, along with clouds, daisies, a star and a wave at the base. The linework is bold and dark, with soft blended shading across the fills. Bright purples, oranges, yellows and blues dominate the piece, which is centred on the upper back.

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The frost had got into the hay barn by the second week of January, and Ruth Tolley found the fox asleep in a warm square of light that fell through a gap in the slats. Its eyes were shut. Its tail curled over its nose like a scarf someone had left on a hook. She stood in the doorway with the egg basket on her hip and didn't move, because her grandfather had told her that a fox asleep in winter is a fox that has decided to stay.

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Joss came out with the thermos and found her there. She told him the old story while the tea went cold between them. The fox, she said, carried the sun on one shoulder and the moon on the other, and it was the only creature that could keep both of them in the sky at once. When it slept, the sun and moon were allowed to rest too, and that was why the year stood still in the dead weeks. Where its belly touched the ground, the river came up in spring, and wherever its paws had rested, daisies came up before anything else.

Joss laughed and said she'd been reading too many seed catalogues. Ruth only nodded toward the barn floor. The fox was gone, and in the patch of sunlight it had left, a single white daisy was standing in the straw, its petals open and perfectly dry, as if the frost had not been allowed to come in there at all.

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