Temporary-looking silver and gold designs of arrows, a black chevron band and an Eye of Horus on a tanned forearm and wrist.

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Metallic arrows and Eye of Horus on forearm

Blackwork · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

The image shows a close view of a tanned forearm and wrist decorated with several metallic designs. Silver arrows with feathered fletching sit at the upper left, above a solid black band of pointed chevron shapes with small white dots. A gold Eye of Horus outline sits on the hand beside a silver lined band and a gold beaded bracelet, and the designs appear to be temporary metallic transfers.

Blackwork Geometric Forearm Hand Arrow Feather Eye of horus Chevron Dot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nadia had sold the same gold transfers at the harbour stall since May, and by August she could tell a holidaymaker from a local by the way they held the sheet up to the light. The foil arrows went first, their feathers fanned like something from a picture book. The Eye went second, because people liked the idea of being watched over and did not mind paying for it.

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Her uncle Selim thought the whole trade a sin. He had sold brass lamps for forty years and believed anything that came off in the bath was a lie told in metal. "Ink stays," he said, wiping his hands on a rag. "Ink is a promise. This is a rumour."

The fisherman's son came back on the last Tuesday with the arrows gone. The sea had taken them on the bay, all but one feather that clung in the crease of his palm. He wanted another set and the Eye pressed hard so it would hold. Nadia peeled the sheet, laid the gold over his pulse and rubbed until the shape came up clean and bright.

Uncle Selim watched from the doorway, then went inside and came back with a tin of silver paint and a fine brush. Without a word he drew a chevron band above the foil, black ink along the points and a dot of silver between each one. "Now it stays," he said. The boy laughed, and nobody mentioned the sea again.