Black and grey realism tattoo of a snow-capped mountain and pine trees inside an ornate oval frame on the upper thigh.

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Mountain and pines in an ornate frame

Realism · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

An oval ornate filigree frame encloses a misty mountain peak with cloud above and tall pine trees in the foreground. The shading is soft and smoky, with fine gradients in the sky and mountain and darker, denser tones in the trees. The composition is centred and symmetrical, with the frame's heavy black scrollwork contrasting with the lighter landscape inside.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Tomas Vell kept the signal box at Carrick Halt, where the single line climbed between the pines towards the Gaunt pass. Every morning he polished the brass frame of the north window, because it had been his mother's, and she had told him the mountain behind the glass would only show itself to a man who kept the glass clean.

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One November the mist sat on the valley for nine days and the six-forty did not come. On the tenth morning a cloud lifted off the peak like a sheet off a bed, and the pines stood out black at the foot of the glass. A woman was waiting on the platform with a tin trunk and a ticket for a place he had never heard of. She asked whether the line still ran to the top. He told her it had not run since his father's time.

She said the mountain was a door and the trees were its keepers. Each winter one of them had to be cut and carried down to the valley, or the snow would never leave the high ground. Tomas looked at the stove in the waiting room and then at the frame. He took the saw from the hook by the lamp and went out into the cold.

When the mist came back in January, the middle pine had gone from the glass. In its place was a strip of pale sky, and the brass frame was warm to the touch. The station clock, which had read twenty to seven for thirty years, began to tick again.