Black linework lion head tattoo on the inner wrist of a raised hand, with a small pink heart mark above it.

Lion head tattoo on inner wrist

Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A black lion head with a flowing mane is shown on the inner wrist of a hand held up against a green knitted cloth and a magazine. The lion is drawn in bold, clean black outlines with little shading, and a small pink heart sits just above it. The composition is a close, slightly angled shot with the hand filling the frame and a soft, blurred background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now sit closer, the wind up here steals half of a tale, and I will not have you missing the good part. Forty winters I have kept this hut at the Kessar pass, and every one of them the lion came down from the scree at dusk to drink at the cold spring. Its mane was black where the frost had not touched it, and the rest stood out like smoke off a wet fire. The muleteers called it the Warden. It never once took a goat.

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The year my grandmother was young, a boy from the valley below named Tamas climbed up with a broken heart and a pocketful of rose quartz he meant to leave for a girl who had married a cooper. He sat at the spring to cry. The lion came, lay down beside him, and waited until he was done. Then it nudged the stone from his palm with one great paw and carried it in its teeth back into the rocks, as if it had something to answer.

Next morning the boy found the stone set on a flat slab at the spring's edge, the pink heart of it cracked clean in two, and beside it a single black hair the length of his forearm. He went down the mountain lighter than he came up. Some say the lion only wanted a bit of company. I say a lion that will carry your sorrow off in its mouth has a heart of its own, and so, I suppose, does the mountain.

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