Two side-by-side photographs of complementary puzzle piece tattoos with red heart fills on the forearm, one showing a full piece and the other a piece with a heart shape cut into it.

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Matching puzzle piece tattoos with red hearts

Forearm · Mixed · Photo

The image is a split view of two tattoos on skin, each a black outlined puzzle piece. The left piece contains a solid red heart, and the right piece contains a red half heart that fits the outline of the left piece. The black linework is even and the red fill is flat, with light skin tones around the designs.

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Brother Edric and Brother Hal were given the wax seal to cut because no one else at Saint Ebba's could hold a chisel steady enough. The abbot wanted a stamp for the letters that went out over the fen causeways, and he wanted it cut in two halves that would lock, so that a forged letter would show a gap. Edric took the left half and Hal the right, and they were told to work apart in separate cells until the vespers bell.

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They did as they were told for a month. Edric cut a plain shape with a bulge on one side and a hollow on the other, and he cut it deep. Hal cut his half to fit, but he had ideas of his own. He pressed a sliver of red ochre into the centre of Edric's piece before it went to the fire, and when Edric saw it he said nothing, because the abbot's rule was about the shape and not the colour.

When the seals were pressed, the wax took the outline clean, but the red had worked into the grain of the brass and came off on every letter that left the house. The abbot held one up to the window and frowned. Then he laid the two halves together and found that the red sat exactly where the cut of Hal's half went round it, a heart with one side missing, waiting to be filled. "Two men who would not speak," he said, "and one of them has painted the answer." He sent them both to the refectory to eat together for a year.

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