Fine line black ink tattoo of the numbers one to six arranged in an arc on the outer ankle.

Numbers one to six around an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows the numbers 1 to 6 in a simple sans-serif style, spaced in a curved arc across the ankle. The lines are thin and even, with solid black ink and no shading. The ink sits on pale skin against a dark background, with the foot and heel filling most of the frame.

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Mags had the chalk in one hand and the tide table in the other when the boy came running up the slipway shouting that the Mary Ellen had lost her mooring at the spit. She didn't look up. "Six hours," she said. "Not one minute less than that, and not a minute more." She drew the first figure on the slate by the harbour door, a neat 1 at the bottom where the low water sat, then the 2 and the 3, climbing round the rim like the hands of a clock someone had forgotten to finish.

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Her father had made the slate the winter before he died, and he had been particular about the numbers. They had to be plain, he said, because the sea didn't care for fancy writing and neither did the men who came in soaked and cursing at the wrong hour. Each turn of the tide she rubbed out the old figure and moved the chalk one step on, and each time her knuckles cracked with the cold.

By the fourth number the boy had gone quiet. The Mary Ellen was still out past the breakwater, a small orange shape rising and falling against the grey, and the wind had swung north. Mags stood with the chalk against the 5 and waited. Two hours of light, maybe three. She had seen grown men lose their nerve in less.

At six she wiped the slate clean and wrote nothing. Down on the water the boat came round the end of the wall under its own steam, low in the stern, and the boy started cheering. Mags put the chalk in her apron pocket and went to fetch the rope.

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