Back tattoo of orange flowers with dark swirling scrollwork across the shoulder blade, shown on a woman wearing a red and black striped top.

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Orange flowers and scrollwork on a shoulder blade

Botanical · Back · Mixed · Photo

A woman's upper back shows a tattoo of three orange, daisy-like flowers clustered over the shoulder blade, with dark grey and black swirling scrollwork extending up towards the neck and down across the back. The flowers have soft shading and petal detail, while the scrolls use bold, tapering linework. The warm orange tones contrast with the grey scrolls and the dark background.

Botanical Neo-trad Back Shoulder Flower Daisy Scroll Swirl Floral

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The smith at Caddon Ford had forged the gate for the old queen, and when she died it still stood unpainted at the end of the orchard path. The new queen's gardener, a sour man named Brann, was told to paint the iron grey and plant something that would hide the rust. He chose nothing, because nothing would grow in that cold corner of the castle wall.

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Then a goose-keeper's daughter called Sela came up from the hill country with three seedlings wrapped in her apron. She knelt where the iron scrolls curled outward like fern fronds and pressed the roots into the thin soil. The daisies took, though nothing else in Caddon took that winter. They opened orange, the colour of the sky before rain, and Brann swore they had been planted in the wrong season.

Every spring after that the scrolls grew. They thickened and reached up the wall toward the bell rope and down past the gate hinges, and the court said the iron was alive. Brann tried to cut a stem with his shears one April and his palms came away sticky with sap. Sela only laughed and said the flowers had their own opinions about who came to the gate. The daisies opened wide for travellers who arrived without lies, and drooped shut for anyone who did not. When Sela was an old woman, the queen's messenger came to the gate with a sealed letter and found the petals closed tight. He turned around without a word and rode back down the hill, and the flowers stayed open for the goose-keeper's grandchildren long after.