Tattoo of an infinity symbol formed by a wand with sparkles, with the word Always in black script, on the side of the ribs.

Infinity wand with Always script on ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows a figure-eight infinity symbol drawn as a thin black wand with a brown twisted handle, with small star and sparkle motifs tracing the loops. The word Always is written in flowing black script across the right loop. Fine black linework is combined with small touches of blue, orange and brown dots, set against lightly flushed skin in a centred composition.

Lettering Fine line Ribs Infinity Wand Star Sparkle Always Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Abernethy had been turning the same length of blackthorn on her lathe since the Tuesday her husband went out with the fishing boats and did not come back, and she had not yet decided what it was for. The wood was too stubborn for a walking stick and too crooked for a spindle. Her son Tobias, nine years old and sure of everything, stood at her elbow with a jar of cold tea and asked whether it was finished.

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"Not yet," she said, and cut a spiral into the handle, one turn after another, until the grain looked like rope. Outside, the first stars came through over the harbour wall, and the boy counted them the way children count sweets. She pressed a fleck of blue glass into the groove, then a sliver of copper, then a few seeds of orange lacquer. When she was done she held the thing up to the window and sighted along it to the thin dark line where the wood bent back on itself.

Tobias asked what the sideways loop was called. She told him it was the sign for something that never ends, a seven lying down on its side. He said that was a silly name for a sign. She agreed, wrapped the wand in oilcloth, and wrote a single word on the paper beneath it in her neatest hand, pressing so hard the nib split.

The next morning the boat came in without its crew. Tobias carried the parcel down to the quay himself, and at the last moment he unwrapped it and laid the wand across the wet planks, where the tide would reach it first. "He'll see it," he said. "He'll know it's from us." Mrs Abernethy did not stop him. The sea could keep what it had taken, she thought, but the stars had been counted, and the word on the paper was already on its way out past the wall.