Flash design of a red and orange dragon with spread blue-winged membranes and a flame tipped tail on a dark grey background.

Orange and blue winged dragon design

Traditional · Mixed · Flash

A stylised dragon is shown in a symmetrical pose with its head turned to the side and its wings raised above it. The body is filled in with flat red and orange tones, and the wing membranes are flat blue with darker blue shading along the edges. The figure has a bold dark outline and a faint blue glow, set against a plain dark grey background, and the tail ends in a flame shape.

Traditional Dragon Wing Flame Tail

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fishermen of Corran Bay had a saying that the sea was too wide to hold a secret, so the tide carried them all back to the shore eventually. Old Maren Tulleck heard it every morning from her son-in-law, and every morning she told him the sea had never carried back her husband's boat. It had carried back only his hat, which she still kept on a nail above the hearth.

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One grey evening in the month of the long rains, a red dragon came up out of the water beside the breakwater. It was no bigger than a fishing smack, and it lifted its wings the way a heron lifts its grey wings to dry them, blue membrane spread thin against the cloud. It turned its horned head towards the lamp in Maren's window and blew one small flame, which went out at once in the wet air. Then it dipped under the water again and was gone.

Maren walked down to the breakwater the next morning with a loaf wrapped in cloth. She set it on the wet stone and waited until the tide had come and gone twice. When she came home her hands were empty and the loaf was gone, and on the nail above the hearth her husband's hat had been replaced by a single curl of orange scale, warm to the touch, glowing faintly like the last of a fire. She hung it beside the hat and said nothing to her son-in-law, who asked her the next morning whether the sea had given anything back, and she said that it had, and that it had been fair about it.