Colour tattoo of a flying hummingbird with the script II Cor. 7:14 beside it, on the upper back.

Hummingbird with II Cor. 7:14 script

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A hummingbird in flight faces right, with its long beak, outstretched wings and a green head and back shaded in dark greens. Its throat is red and its underside is pale, with grey and black feather detail on the wings. The black script reference II Cor. 7:14 runs diagonally beside the bird's body on lightly textured skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The hummingbird came to the kitchen window of the Penhallow mill in the week the bailiff arrived, and it hung in the air there as if it had been sent with a message. Nobody in the valley had seen such a bird. Old Jory Nance said it was a spark off the forge, his wife said it was a bad omen, and the miller's daughter said nothing at all but watched it with her hand flat on the sill.

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The bailiff had come asking whether the mill's weights were true. Tobias Penhallow had boasted in the Ship that his scales had never cheated a child of a farthing, and the bailiff had laughed and written the boast in his book. Now the scales were to be weighed against the king's standard in front of the whole parish, and the miller's face had gone the colour of wet flour.

On the morning of the test the bird went ahead of them down the lane, stopping at each hedge to wait for them, as if it knew the road. When the bailiff stepped forward to lay his hand on the beam, the bird darted at his coat and hovered at the pocket, red throat bright as a coal. The bailiff swatted at it, and out fell a lead weight wrapped in cloth, rolling across the cobbles to the miller's feet. The bird was gone before anyone could catch it.

That night Tamsin found a single green feather on the windowsill and kept it between the pages of her Bible, at the letter to the Corinthians where a boast is said to have been found true. The miller never boasted again. When people asked him about it, he only said he had been told the truth by something small enough to fit in a closed hand.