Black linework tattoo of a jagged mountain range sitting on the outer hip or upper thigh, with a paper tissue tucked at the waistband above it.

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Mountain range tattoo on the hip

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A simple black tattoo of three jagged mountain peaks sits on the side of the hip or upper thigh. The outlines are bold and solid, with the peaks filled in black against bare skin. The composition is centred and sits on a plain background of skin, with a white tissue at the top edge of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ferry is already loading when you reach the slipway, gulls squabbling over a split bag of chips on the bollard. Your brother has the tickets, as he always does, so you stand at the rail with two coffees going cold and look across Lammas Sound at the hills. From this side of the water they rise like three black teeth against a sky the colour of wet slate.

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Your grandfather taught you to read them before you could read a timetable. Sit on the harbour wall, he said, and count the peaks. The left one is the tallest, the middle one dips where the old quarry bit into it, and the right one leans like a man who has had one pint too many at the Anchor. Once you knew the shape you could never get lost, even when fog swallowed the lighthouse. He kept a pencil sketch of them tucked behind the barometer, and it still hangs in the hallway at home, creased where he folded it to fit his coat pocket.

Halfway across, the boat lurches in a swell and the deck goes sideways. You grab the rail and the coffee slops over your wrist, and for a moment the whole grey world tilts. Then you look up, and the three peaks are exactly where they were, unmoved, the middle one still dipping its small notch. Your brother laughs at you for swearing. You do not tell him what you were checking.

When the ramp drops on the far side, you walk up the slipway with the wind in your face and the hills at your back. You find you have stopped counting. You know the shape by heart now, which is the point of a landmark, and for once you can afford to look down at the cobbles.