Two people holding hands, each with a small black arrow tattoo on the inside of the forearm, in a fine line style.

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Two people hold hands, showing a black arrow tattoo on the inner forearm of each arm. The arrow on the left is larger with a feathered fletching, while the one on the right is thinner and smaller. The linework is solid black with no visible colour, against freckled skin and a white tiled floor.

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In the kingdom of Hollin Vale, the bowyer Maud Tarrant kept a rule that no archer in the valley had ever seen broken. She cut every shaft from the same stand of ash on the north slope, and she would not sell an arrow to anyone who came up the lane alone. Couples walked up from the mill and the ferry, and she sat them on her bench and asked to see their hands.

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One spring two young people came up together, the miller's son Edric and a weaver's daughter called Ysolde. Edric wanted a bow for the deer in the Greywood. Ysolde wanted only to stand beside him while he chose. Maud split a single length of ash down the grain and made two arrows from the halves. Edric's she fletched with goose feathers and gave a broad head, heavy enough to bring down a stag. Ysolde's she made thinner, with a point no wider than a barley grain.

"Why do they not match?" Edric asked. Maud told him that a heavy arrow flies true into the wind, and a light one goes exactly where it is sent. "You will need both," she said, "and neither will fly well without the other." She had them marked on the inside of their forearms with soot and a bone needle, so the marks would not wash away in the rain.

The Greywood flooded the year the ferry went under. The men of Hollin Vale found Edric and Ysolde on the bank with their hands locked, the water to their knees, and neither had let go. Afterwards someone asked Maud which of the two had been the stronger. She said the question was badly aimed.

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