Fine line black tattoo of three mountain peaks with small marks below, on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.

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Mountain range on upper back

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a person's upper back showing a small black tattoo of three mountain peaks in a row, with a few small marks beneath them that could be birds. The linework is thin and crisp, with some interior shading on the peaks. The composition is soft and close, with dark wavy hair falling across the right side of the frame.

Fine line Back Mountain Peak Bird

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the step, the flagstones are wet, and if you mean to sit then sit where the wind can't get at your ankles. Good. Now. The three peaks above Varenna were not always three. There was one, and it was greedy, and it wanted to be the only thing the sky ever looked at.

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So it sent its youngest slope down into the valley to fetch a wife from the lowland town of Ose, a cheese seller who could not be frightened by anything taller than her father. She agreed to climb up on one condition: that the mountain stop sulking and let the swallows nest in its gullies. The mountain grumbled, but it agreed.

Years passed, and the wife grew tired of being one mountain's whole world. One morning in early autumn she took the goat path up to the ridge, and when she reached the top she struck the stone with the iron pin she had carried since girlhood. The peak split along its spine, and out of the crack rose two more summits, one for each of the daughters who were already halfway up the path behind her, shouting for her to wait.

The birds that had nested in the old mountain did not know where to go, so they circled the new peaks until they settled in the saddles between them. They are there still. If you climb in March you will see them, small and dark and quarrelling, marking the place where a single mountain was taught to share the sky.