Fine line tattoo of a polar bear outline on a forearm, with a solid red dot for the nose.

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Polar bear outline with red nose on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A single polar bear facing right, drawn as a thin black outline with no shading. A small solid red dot sits where the nose would be, and it is the only colour in the design. The tattoo is on pale skin beside a blue denim sleeve, against a plain light background.

Fine line Forearm Bear Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The stove in the Kessock hut had gone out again, and Mattie Lund was hunched over the last of the paraffin when the bear came up the slipway. It was the third week of the dark, and the bear had the look of something that had walked a long way on nothing but its own opinions. It stopped at the door, sniffed the tin of Bovril on the sill, and then looked at Mattie with an expression she could only call professional.

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"You're not having that," she said. The bear sat down. Its nose was the only warm thing on the whole coast, a single round spot of red where the snow should have been white, as if someone had pressed a wet cherry onto it and forgotten to lift it off. The old men at the harbour said a bear with a red nose had been to the far side of the ice and come back carrying a message. Mattie had never believed them.

The message, when it came, was a folded letter tied with fishing line and addressed in her brother's careful capitals from a research station two hundred miles north. He wrote that the ice was thinning, that the supply boat would be late, and that he was sorry about the argument at their mother's funeral. The bear watched her read it twice, then turned and padded back onto the white with the air of a postman who has finished his round.

Mattie folded the letter into her coat pocket, set the tin of Bovril out on the step for the morning, and pushed the door shut against the wind. By dawn the tin was empty and four enormous prints led north across the snow, each one deep and neat. The wind had swung round in the night, and for the first time since autumn it smelled faintly of the sea, as if somewhere far off the ice had begun to break.