Close-up of two hands held together, with a small fine line black letter K and heart on one finger and a heart and letter on the next, placed on the fingers.

Letters and hearts on two fingers

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two hands are pressed together with the fingers touching, showing small black tattoos on two adjacent fingers. One finger has a serif letter K beside a solid black heart, and the other has a solid black heart beside a thin outlined letter. The linework is fine and the ink is solid black against pale skin, on a plain off-white and beige background.

Fine line Lettering Hand Letter Heart Finger

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody at the Anchor believed the queen of hearts had gone missing by accident, least of all Ada Pryce, who had been playing with a short deck since Margate and had never lost a hand to a bad card. Mr Lusk, who kept a king of hearts tucked behind his ear like a pencil, had won four rounds running. The landlady counted coins in a tin that rattled like teeth, rain came sideways past the window, and the candle guttered every time the door opened.

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He dealt slowly, the way men deal when they expect to be watched. Ada kept her hands flat on the boards. Her father had taught her that a card player's tells live in the fingers, and that the honest ones keep to themselves. Her own hand held a jack of spades, a two of clubs and a king of hearts she had drawn herself in her father's mapmaking ink, the K crooked, the heart filled in so black it looked wet.

"Ten shillings says you've a queen up that sleeve," she said. Mr Lusk smiled and pushed his coins forward. She turned her wrist over, slowly, and laid her card down. It was a heart, a fat one, and beside it a slim Q with its tail curled under like a sleeping cat. Her father had drawn that Q on every queen in the old packs he mended, and nobody at the table had ever seen the same letter twice.

Mr Lusk looked at the card for a long time. Then he took the king from behind his ear and laid it beside hers, and the two hearts sat together on the wood like a mismatched pair of gloves. "Where did you learn to draw a queen?" he asked. "From the one who lost her," said Ada, and gathered the coins.