Realistic black and grey tattoo of a long-haired cat's face with detailed fur and whiskers, placed on the upper back.

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Long-haired cat portrait on upper back

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The tattoo shows a long-haired cat's face facing forward, with strong dark eyes, a pale nose and a soft, layered coat rendered in fine grey shading. Fine white whisker lines run across the darker fur, and the tonal blending gives the head a soft, three-dimensional look. The design fills most of the frame against plain pale skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The steward's boy had been sent up the north stair to fetch the bell rope, and he came back down white-faced, saying the cat was sitting in the lord's chair as if someone had invited her. Nobody at Corrie Keep could say where she had come from. She was long-haired and grey as wet slate, with a ruff so thick that the frost caught in it and stayed. No one had ever seen her eat anything but what the cook left on the step, and no one had ever seen her sleep. When the masons came to shore up the curtain wall by the chapel, she watched them from the sill with dark, unblinking eyes, and they swore afterwards that the stones they laid that week never once settled crooked.

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Lady Ysolde was the last of the line, and she would not leave. She sold the silver to pay the wages, then the tapestries, then the bell, and she kept the cat. When the carts came up from the valley in the second winter of the famine, the cat walked out through the gate ahead of them, tail high, and stopped at the broken portcullis to look back at the keep. The lady did not follow. The carters said afterwards that she had sat down on the steps with her hands folded in her lap, the way a woman sits when she has finished arguing.

The roof fell in the spring after that. A shepherd who crossed the moor road that summer reported the hall open to the sky, the chair still standing in the rain, and a line of small wet paw prints running across the flagstones towards the tower, with none coming back down. He did not climb up to check. He said he had no wish to be the one who asked whose prints they were, and he said the swallows nested in that chair every year after, and that at dusk a grey shape sat on the broken wall above the road, facing the way the carts had gone.