Black ink hamsa hand with a six-pointed star inside a circle at the top and swirling linework within the hand, tattooed on skin.

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Hamsa and star of David tattoo

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A hamsa hand outline sits beneath a circle containing a six-pointed star of David, all in dark ink. The hand is filled with curling, swirl-like linework and the outlines are even and fairly bold. The image is a close, slightly soft photograph on a light skin tone with a dark background at the edge.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The last ship to come down on Hesper Flats lost its cargo to the dust, so the people of Kettle Row went out with lanterns to see what the sky had left them. Old Maren Tolle found the crate first, split open against a ridge of black glass, and inside it was a hand the size of a child's palm, cast in some grey alloy that had never seen the sun. Someone had ringed its palm with a circle, and inside the circle sat a six-pointed star.

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Nobody in Kettle Row could say what it was for. The grandmothers said a hand held up against the world keeps out what would come through the door, so they hung it over the airlock of the grain store. Through the wet seasons the dust came and went against the seals and never got past them. Maren's son Ilan, who could never leave a thing alone, scored his initials into the swirls on the palm with a nail file, and the children said the curls grew deeper each year because the hand was writing back.

When the relay tower failed in the thirtieth year, the council sent a runner across the flats for parts, and Ilan went with her because he knew the path through the glass ridges. They came back with the parts and a strange account of a grey wind that had stopped a yard from the runner's visor and turned aside, as if it had been asked politely.

Ilan never crossed the flats again. He stayed to keep the seal, and when he was old he taught the children to trace the star with a wet finger on the cold metal. Six points, he said, for six ways the dust might come, and one circle to show the hand had seen them all. Then he sent them to bed. The grain stayed dry.