Fine line black lotus flower tattoo with a dotted chain and hanging drop ornaments on the calf.

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Lotus flower with dotted chain on a calf

Fine line · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A lotus flower in outline with petals drawn in fine black linework, with light shading inside the petals. A dotted chain curves beneath the bloom, with three hanging drop ornaments and small dots below it. The design is in black ink on pale skin, centred on the leg with plain dark fabric behind it.

Fine line Botanical Geometric Calf Lotus Flower Dotted chain Dot Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You arrive at the Royal Oak function room in Croydon forty minutes late, because the 157 sat in traffic behind a skip lorry, and by the time you find the coat rack the name badges are already out on the trestle table. Someone has written your maiden name in capitals with a felt tip that has run dry at the S. You stick it on anyway. Across the room a woman in a navy wrap dress is laughing with one hand flat on her chest, and it takes you three full seconds to recognise Hannah Pell, who once sold you a brass lotus pendant from a shoebox under the stage in Year Ten for two pounds fifty you did not have.

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The chain it hung from snapped the week before your mocks, and you kept the pendant in the zip pocket of your pencil case for the rest of school. The petals wore smooth from thumbing them during chemistry until you could no longer see the lines, only feel their edges. Hannah has no memory of any of it. She tells you her mum runs a stall at the market now, selling lamps made from old bicycle wheels, that she has three children, and that her husband sings bass in a choir that performs at Christmas in the cathedral.

You open your bag, find the pendant wedged in a tissue, and hold it out on your palm. Hannah looks at it for a long time. Then she digs a little black bead from her own purse, one she has apparently carried for decades, and threads it onto a loop of thread with the lotus hanging beneath, so that it sits between two small dots as if it had never been away.