Two people's inner upper arms side by side, each with a small fine line black six-point star tattoo, one in a striped top and one in a navy sleeve.

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Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

Two arms are held close together, each with a small six-pointed star tattoo built from fine outlines and open geometric segments. The linework is thin and mostly black, with light grey shading in the centre of the right-hand star. The plain light background keeps focus on the matching tattoos, which sit at a similar height on the inner upper arms.

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They had been told the shaft at Greave Hollow went down four hundred yards and that the cold came up it like a dog that had forgotten its master. Nell Tranter did not believe a word of it, but she believed her sister's hand on her wrist, and that was the sum of her belief that winter.

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Their mother had pricked a star into each of them with a sail needle and a thimble of lamp black, high on the arm where a sleeve would hide it from the overseer. Six points, she said, the way the star over the chapel was six points when the frost was hard. Anyone lost under the ground could find their way up by a star they knew, and a star marked on the flesh was a star that could not be taken off you.

When the roof came down at the east drift, the men shouted down the shaft for three days. On the fourth night Bet climbed the ladder to the pit-head with a lantern and stood where the wind was worst. She pushed up her sleeve. Nell, below her in the cage, pushed up hers, and they held their arms together against the black sky until the lamp guttered and went out.

From far down the shaft came a tap on iron. They counted the taps, one, two, three, and went towards the sound with their two small stars held up before them, following the points of them the way their mother had taught them.

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