Black and grey mermaid tattoo design with pink flowers and two anglerfish, drawn in a flash-style illustration with no body part shown.

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Mermaid with anglerfish and pink flowers

Botanical · Mixed · Flash

A mermaid with long dark hair flows through the composition, her tail shaded in black and grey, with pink flower clusters curling around her torso and tail. Two skeletal anglerfish sit on either side of her, drawn with clean outlines and soft grey shading on a warm grey background. The pink petals and fins are the only colour accents against the monochrome shading, giving a balanced, centred layout.

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Dear Nell, The cook swears the green glow we saw off the Azores was a lantern on a drowned man's boat, but I have stopped arguing with the cook. Since Tuesday the watch talks of nothing else than the woman who keeps pace with the bow at dusk.

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She swims an hour at a time, hair spreading behind her like ink poured into a glass of water, and the flowers caught in her tail are pink as the inside of a whelk shell. Two fish follow her, bony things with their jaws hung open and a little lamp dangling above each brow. Mr Ashby says they are anglerfish and their bones glow for a day after they die. I asked how he knew that and he went red and said his grandfather fished off Cornwall.

Last night I took the lookout's lamp and went to the rail alone. She lifted her face to me and I will not write what it did, for you would not believe it and Mother would never forgive my spelling. She only reached out and the petals came loose from her shoulder and drifted up, one of them landing dry in my palm. The fish turned their lamps on me all together, the way a street of windows lights up when someone comes home late.

The petal is in the tin with your letter about the goat. It has not wilted and I cannot say that of my boots. The captain wants the lot thrown over before we make port, but Cook says you must never throw out a flower you were given at sea, or the sea comes asking. I think I will keep it. Write soon and tell me the goat has not eaten the washing again. Your loving brother, Tom.

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