Photorealistic colour tattoo of two fried eggs and bacon in a black cast iron skillet on the outer upper arm.

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Fried eggs and bacon in a skillet

Realism · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows a cast iron skillet holding two fried eggs with glossy orange yolks and three rashers of bacon. The pan and its handle are rendered in grey and black with soft highlights, giving a three-dimensional look. The design fills the frame against a plain skin background, with smooth blended shading across the food and pan.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The third egg was the one that nearly got me hanged. Lord Ancrum had been clear that the garrison ate eggs only on feast days, and the hens had gone to the dogs in the second month of the siege, so when I cracked two into the skillet that grey morning, the whole hall turned to watch. I kept my back to them and my eyes on the fat.

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The skillet was my mother's, black iron as heavy as a sin, and it had come up the hill on my shoulder when we fled the lower town. Nobody had cleaned it since. The rashers came from a pig nobody would name, cut thin enough to see the candle through, and I laid three of them in the grease where they curled and spat like angry cats. The yolks sat up bright orange in their white beds, nearly too bright to be honest, and the smell rose through the cracked roof into the rain.

Ancrum came down the stair with his sword still buckled and his face grey as the walls. He didn't ask where I'd found the eggs. He stood at my elbow, looked into the pan a long time, and said his father had eaten exactly this on the morning the old king rode out. Then he took the handle from my hand, tipped the skillet so the grease ran to one side, and said, 'Cut it in four. We'll all have a corner.'

We ate standing up, fingers in the yolk, passing the pan from hand to hand until only the black iron was left and the rain had stopped. Nobody said the siege was over. Nobody needed to. I scrubbed the skillet that evening with sand and ash, and when I hung it on its nail by the door I saw the grease had burnt a ring into the iron, round and gold as a coin.