Two small fine line tattoos in black ink on a pair of forearms, an hourglass on the left arm and a computer cursor arrow on the right.

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Hourglass and cursor arrow on forearms

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two small black tattoos sit on the inner forearms of two arms held side by side against a dark background. The left arm carries a tiny hourglass outline, and the right arm carries a simple arrow shaped like a computer mouse cursor. Both designs use thin, even linework with minimal or no shading, and the plain skin and dark backdrop keep the focus on the small motifs.

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The sand had run out just as Mrs Oddie reached the bell rope, so she turned the glass over again, the way she had every quarter hour since the Brackenhythe ferry first sailed under her watch. The council had fixed a grey screen to the ticket hut in March. It showed the tides, the wind and a little white arrow that drifted about the display like a fly looking for a window. Nobody on the slipway trusted it. Mrs Oddie trusted it least of all.

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On Thursday the young surveyor came down from the council with a laptop under one arm and a lanyard that said Dan. He was patient with her. He showed her how the arrow followed a tap of the finger, how the sailing times could be changed by anyone with the right password, which he would not tell her. "It's quicker," he said. Mrs Oddie said that a glass did not need a password and had never once been wrong about the sea, only about the people who forgot to watch it. Dan laughed, then saw she was not joking, and went back up the hill.

That evening, with the last crossing logged, she sat in the hut with the lamp lit and the sea grey beyond the wall. The arrow hung over the sixteen-forty sailing, blinking a little, waiting to be told what to do. She lifted the hourglass off its hook, set it on the sill beside the screen, and let the sand run. For the first time in years she had no need to hurry her count. The tide turned, the wind came round to the west, and the screen kept blinking while the glass did what it had always done.

By morning the screen had gone dark in the damp. Mrs Oddie was glad of it, and she rang the bell on time.

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