Colour tattoo of a pocket watch with a banner on the inner wrist and forearm of a woman wearing a denim cap embroidered with babe.

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Pocket watch tattoo on a forearm

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A woman with long dark hair holds the brim of a light blue denim cap embroidered with the word babe and a pair of eyelashes, with her face hidden. A tattoo of a pocket watch with a lettered banner sits on her inner wrist and forearm, with a small line design on one finger. The clock face and banner show red, yellow and green accents against the skin, set against a soft grey blurred background.

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Mairead had the watch open on the bench before the first ferry horn sounded, its brass case propped against a jar of mineral oil. Her uncle had left it to the harbour office with a note saying only that it kept the right time for the island. Every other clock on Inchmurrin ran a few minutes slow or fast, and the postmaster set his counter by the ferry, so the whole island had been living by a rumour.

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She worked the tiny hands loose with a pair of tweezers while gulls argued on the slipway. Inside the back plate someone had scratched a name she didn't know, and beneath it a date from the winter the mail boat stopped coming. The enamel dial had a red bloom at the edge where damp had got in, and the little lettered band across the face had faded to a single word she could almost read.

On the third morning she found the cause: a hairline crack in the mainspring barrel, and a wedge of paper folded small beside it. It was a timetable, written out in pencil, with every crossing struck through except one. The last line read "Thursday, the other side." Thursday was tomorrow.

She set the watch back in its velvet tray, wound it once, and listened to it tick steady in the empty shop. Then she took her coat from the hook, left the door unlatched, and walked down to the slip to wait for the boat.

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