Two pairs of legs and feet on a bed show matching solid black band tattoos around the calves, with a small script tattoo on one ankle.

Matching black bands on two calves

Blackwork · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

Two pairs of bare legs and feet rest on white bedding, with a television remote and a white game controller nearby. Each leg carries a pair of solid black parallel bands around the calf, drawn with clean, even edges and no shading. The skin tones are natural, the image is colour-neutral apart from the red toenail polish, and the framing places the feet at the top and the bands near the bottom.

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Nobody on the quay believed the bet had been made in earnest, least of all Dora Pringle, who had been married to the harbour for forty years and knew a bluff when she heard one. Her nephew Alf and his cousin Mae had sworn over the last of the Christmas ale that whoever kept a lantern lit on the lifeboat slip through a full gale would win the other's rowing skiff for a summer. Nobody reckoned on the storm lasting three nights.

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They came down the slipway on the fourth morning, soaked to the bone and grinning, and Dora noticed the marks straight away. Two black bands had been inked round each of their left calves by a man in Flowergate who charged them a pound apiece and said it was the only fair way to keep score. Alf claimed the top band for the wind and the bottom for the sea. Mae said they were the two tides running through one channel, and that she had been there first, so the lantern was hers.

The skiff stayed on its trestles all summer. Neither would row it alone, and by August the whole quay had stopped asking whose it was. Dora watched them take it out on the first calm evening, two heads bent over the oars, the same dark rings catching the low sun as they pulled. Nobody ever settled the bet. The harbour called it a draw and sent them both the bill for the paint.

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