Close-up of a shaded pink rose tattoo with green leaves on a woman's shoulder, partly covered by a white knit jumper.

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Pink rose on a shoulder

Botanical · Shoulder · Colour · Photo

A pink rose with soft, blended shading and green leaves sits on the upper shoulder near the collarbone. The petals show lighter highlights and darker pink folds, giving a smooth, painterly finish. The soft pink and green sit against pale skin, a white knitted jumper and long dark hair, with the frame cropped below the face.

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Dear Ottilie,

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The cutting took root on the eleventh day of the new year, in the hydroponic bay where the light comes in pink from the hull lamps. I know you said roses were a waste of water, but Mam's bush was the last thing I packed, and it has finally thrown a bud the colour of a fingernail held to a candle. I have been sitting with it for an hour, watching the petals fold over one another as if they are arguing about who gets to open first.

The old hands say a rose wants a cold winter before it blooms properly. We have no winter here, only the timer on the grow racks, so I have been cheating. I cool the bay at night and let the water run a shade colder, and the leaves have gone dark green at the edges, the way the picture in Mam's album did. You would laugh at me, talking to a shrub.

Come to the bay before the next shift change. Bring the scissors and the good jar. If the bloom is still open by then, I want you to take the first flower to the council garden and set it in the window where the Earth-facing glass is. Tell them it is from the cutting Mam carried out of the old country, and let them decide whether that is a story or a fact.

Love, Hana

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