Traditional style colour tattoo on the upper arm showing a grey globe with black continents, two red arrows, pink flowers and an EXPLORE banner.

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Globe, arrows and flowers with EXPLORE banner

Traditional · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A grey globe with black continent outlines sits at the centre, pierced by two red arrows at the top left and crossed by a banner reading EXPLORE. Pink flowers with teal leaves sit on either side of the globe, and two orange arrowheads hang from the bottom. Bold black outlines and flat, solid colour fills give a classic traditional look, set against a plain skin background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The map had been wrong for three years, and Ines Carrow knew it because she had walked the wrong side of the col twice in one week. Mist lay in the hollow below Hollin Gap like milk in a saucer, and the mule had stopped again, ears flat, refusing the loose scree that ran down to nothing she could see.

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She unrolled the chart on a flat stone and weighted its corners with her lunch tin and two cold flints. Her uncle had inked the ridgelines in brown forty years ago, and the coastline he had drawn for the far valley was a confident sweep of hatching that had never once matched the ground. Beside the cairn she had planted two ash shafts with red-dyed fletching, bought from a stall in Kendal because the man there swore red showed best in cloud. The fletching still showed. Nothing else did.

She followed the arrows anyway, because they were hers and she trusted her own mistakes more than his neat lines. Twenty minutes on, the mist tore open above a shepherd's hut with a blue door, and a woman stood in the doorway with a loaf under one arm, as if she had been expecting someone foolish enough to come the wrong way up.

In the hut, Ines spread the chart across the table and drew a fresh line from the cairn to the door, pressing hard with the pencil until the paper dented. The woman read it upside down, laughed, and turned it the right way round. The mountains, it turned out, had always been there. Only the map had been looking the other direction.

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