Solid black silhouette pine tree tattoo on an ankle, with a white paper stencil of the same tree beside it.

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Pine tree silhouette on an ankle

Blackwork · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black silhouette of a pine tree sits on the side of an ankle, with its tall trunk and layered, tapering crown. Beside it, a white stencil of the same tree is stuck to the skin, showing the design before or during the tattooing. The shading is flat black with no visible greys, set against plain skin and a dark padded surface.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By the time you reach the col the light has gone the colour of pewter, and the last lone pine stands where the track bends, black against the scree. Your mule stops without being asked. Tomas always said it would, that the beast knew the tree better than either of you. You lay your palm on the bark where his initials are cut and feel the resin still soft beneath the grey.

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Below you the valley lies in shadow, its villages no more than a scatter of lamps. The carter at Vell had given you a bundle of stencils, the kind the cutters use to mark timber before the saw goes in. Tomas had drawn the tree on one of them, tall and tapering, a crown built in layers like a stack of dark plates. He had meant to tell you what it stood for. You have only ever known him to measure things twice and say nothing at all.

You take the stencil from your coat and press it against the trunk, the white paper bending over the rough bark. It fits. It fits exactly, the way a thing does when someone has taken care over every line. Whatever he meant to say, he has left it in the wood, and you are the only one who will climb back up here to read it.

The mule shifts its weight. You pull the knife from your belt, cut one clean notch below his mark, and start the long walk down toward the lamps, counting the switchbacks aloud so the dark cannot count them for you.

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