Colour tattoo of pink flowers and green leaves wrapped around a bold black stylised symbol, shown on a forearm.

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Pink flowers and vines on a black symbol

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A bold black curved symbol resembling a stylised numeral is entwined with a vine of green leaves and three pink five-petalled flowers with yellow centres. The black linework is solid and smooth, with the flowers and leaves filled in with flat colour and some tonal shading. The tattoo sits centred on the skin against a dark background.

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The chalk three came back on the lamp-room door the morning after the rain, a black curl of a figure with a vine growing through its waist, and Nell Pryce rubbed it out with her cuff before the overman could see. Someone always drew it. Nobody in Carrick Row would say who.

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Her gran had told her what it meant when she was small, sitting on the step with a bowl of peas in her lap: three lamps not checked in, three men left at the face when the gas came through the Low Seam in '08. After that the village kept the number the way it kept the chapel bell, rung and remembered. Nell had planted the vine herself against the lamp-hut wall, seeds from a paper packet her gran had kept in a biscuit tin, and in June the flowers came, pink as a cut palm, five petals each, with yellow middles like the sun had been pressed into them.

Overman Bell came round at the shift change with his lamp swinging. He stopped at the door and looked at the leaves crawling over the black stroke, and for a moment his face did the thing it did at funerals. 'Leave it,' he said. 'Three's a good number for a lamp hut. Means somebody's counting.'

Nell watched the cage drop into the dark with the day's men, then picked up her tin and went to check the wicks. Behind her the vine kept climbing the wall, and she let it.

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