Solid black blackwork tattoo of a heart enclosing a stylised face with dark hair, lips and a vertical pin, placed on the calf.

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Heart-framed lips and pin on calf

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A bold, graphic design shows a heart outline enclosing a simplified female profile with dark hair framing the sides. Solid black lips sit near the centre, crossed by a vertical pin or bar with a small highlight. The work uses flat black fills and clean outlines on pale skin, against a dark background.

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Thursday, forty days out from Bristol, and the topsail is back in my lap for the third time this week. Mr Pryce says the canvas will hold if I stitch it like I mean it, so I mean it. A sailmaker keeps a palm strapped to one hand and a row of pins between her lips, because a pin in the mouth is quicker than one in the apron pocket, and because the wind takes everything else.

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Captain Doyle came below at the second bell and sat on my spare sail without asking. He wanted the galley ledger changed so the salt pork showed twice the barrels we actually carry. I said nothing. I took a pin from my mouth, turned it over in my fingers, and put it back between my teeth. He took that for agreement. He was wrong, and he has been wrong all week.

Mrs Ellery's boy Tom signed on as cook's mate in March, and went over the side in the Bay of Biscay with no one looking up. Nobody aboard has said his name since. I have his spare shirt in my kit, the one with the blue thread at the cuff. Tonight I unpicked a seam from the old foresail and stitched Tom's name into the hem, where the captain will see it every time the sail goes up. Pin out, thread in, one stitch for every letter, and the pin back in my mouth before the watch changed.

The sea can have its quiet. Let him read the hem.

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