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Gold metallic flash sheet with arrows and birds
Fine line · Colour · Flash
A sheet of gold metallic tattoo designs on a white background. The motifs include outlined and solid arrows, chevrons, two swallows in flight, a dreamcatcher, an infinity symbol, feathers and crossed arrows, all in simple line and silhouette forms. The single gold colour is applied flat across the sheet, with the product code YS-09 printed at the bottom right.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Sit down, you're blocking the light from the hut window, and the officer will think we're smuggling something. Good. Now, the birds. Every spring the swallows come over the hills from the south, and they have never once asked the men with the stamps for permission.
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There was a girl called Marit who kept the crossing gate at Oskel, and she had a brother on the far side with a boat he could not afford. Each evening she fired a plain arrow over the barrier towards his lamp, a feather tied under the fletching, and a note knotted round the shaft. The guards picked them out of the scrub and kept them as souvenirs, and nobody thought to read the knots.
One autumn the swallows did not leave. A dozen mud cups hung under the gatehouse eaves, and the chief inspector wanted them knocked down before the visiting ministers came. Marit stood at the foot of his ladder holding a dreamcatcher she had woven from her brother's old fishing net, and she said a nest is a passport if you know which way to fly. He laughed at her, and then he stopped laughing, because that week the swallows went south without one of them touching the wire.
So when the spring birds come back, look up and count them. Count twice. The one with the forked tail, that's her brother's, come home by the lower road. Now pass me that cup of water and mind the gate, the lorry is early.
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