Black and grey circular forearm tattoo showing a moon, clouds, stars, mountains and swirling waves in hatched linework.

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Moon, mountains and waves on a forearm

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A circular landscape tattoo on the outer forearm shows a full moon with clouds and stars above a range of peaks. Below the mountains, the foreground is filled with rows of swirling wave patterns. The design uses fine black outlines, engraved-style hatching and dotted textures, with no colour, and is enclosed by a clean circular border.

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The last shift has been up for an hour when you climb the tip road with the brass disc wrapped in a cloth under your arm. Gwen at the lamp room says the engraver's shop is shut, but a light still burns in the back of the chapel hall, where Mr Pryce keeps his tools between funerals. You let yourself in and lay the disc on the bench under the window.

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He handed you the job before his chest went bad: a plate for the rescue fund, a circle a hand wide, a view the widows asked for. Moon over the tips, hills rising behind them, and the sea showing beyond the ridge in long rolling lines. You have cut the moon already, clouds stitched around it with small quick strokes, stars punched in with the dot tool until your wrist aches. The hatching on the peaks took three nights. The waves are the hardest, because every one must turn the same way or the sea looks like it is going nowhere.

Near midnight you hold the plate up to the lamp and see what he must have seen in it before he ever gave it to you. The hills are the ones you walk every morning, but the swell at the bottom is the sea at Porthkerris, the place your mother kept promising to take you when the pit paid out. Nobody in the village has seen that water in thirty years.

You blow the brass dust off, and the moon in the plate catches the lamplight so that for a moment it looks full in the window too. Tomorrow the widows will hold it up and say it is only the tips and the hills. Let them. You know the sea is in the bottom rows, and you cut it there so that someone would have to look twice.

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