Colour tattoo of a large green-canopied tree with a glowing hollow in its brown trunk, placed on the outer thigh.

Large tree with glowing hollow on thigh

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The tattoo shows a broad tree with a dense green canopy above a gnarled brown trunk and exposed roots. A hollow in the trunk contains a cluster of small glowing blue dots, and pale vertical streaks run through the foliage. Soft shading gives the bark and canopy volume against the light skin tone, and the composition sits across the outer thigh with a hand resting on the leg above it.

Thigh Tree Trunk Root Foliage

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The oak at Hollin Cross had been dead on the inside for as long as anyone in Thorncombe could remember, which is why the Mallory boys were told to stop climbing it. Nobody had told the oak. Every midsummer it still put out its wide green crown, and every autumn the leaves came down in the lane like coins nobody wanted.

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Old Bet Tinker kept a tin of blue glass beads under her bed and swore they were the eyes of the hollow. She said that when a child got lost in the wood, the tree opened its trunk just enough to let out a few of its lights, and the lights went ahead and waited at the forks in the path until the child looked up and saw them. Her own brother had followed them home across Sallow Moor in the winter of the flood. He never told anyone what he saw inside the trunk, only that it was warm and smelled of rain.

So when Ruth Halloran's youngest went missing in the bracken one October, the whole village went out with lanterns, and nobody thought to look at the oak until Bet did. She stood at the cross with her palm flat against the bark, and the pale streaks in the canopy began to drip down like rain that refused to fall. Then a cluster of blue lights slid from the hollow and moved off into the dark, three of them, steady as a parent's hand.

They found the boy asleep in the roots at dawn, with a blue light hovering over each shoe. Bet took the beads out of the tin that night and gave them to Ruth's girl to keep. The oak still stands at Hollin Cross, and no child in Thorncombe has been allowed to climb it since.