Bold traditional-style flash drawing of a woman in profile facing right, with red roses in her hair and on her shoulder, a green headwrap and pearl-like hair ornaments.

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Profile portrait with red roses and green headwrap

Traditional · Colour · Flash

A woman is shown in right-facing profile with long dark hair pinned up with pearl-like beads and gold drops, and a green headwrap with cream detailing. Two red roses sit in her hair above the ear and on her shoulder. Thick black outlines, flat fills and a cream parchment background give it a classic flash sheet look.

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The fair came over the hill to Hollin Cross on the Thursday before harvest, and with it came a painted wagon that nobody in the village would go near. The keeper of the roundabout, a man called Tobiah Gray, said the wagon had been in his family since the old king. Inside it lived Nell Varley, who sold strings of pearl-coloured glass beads to girls who wanted to be married before the frost.

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Nell kept her dark hair up with a pin of gold drops, and every evening she tied a green silk headwrap over it, striped cream where her grandmother had stitched the edge. She had one rule. Nobody who bought a bead could take a rose from her wagon, because the roses were not hers to give. A boy from the coconut stall, Ambrose Pike, took one anyway, a red silk rose from the box by the door, and pinned it to his lapel. By Saturday the roundabout had stopped turning.

The villagers asked Nell what she wanted. She walked to the crossroads, unpinned the rose from the boy's coat with two fingers, and set it on the flat stone where the cart tracks met. Wherever that rose lay, the old folk said, the music would stay with the one who had lost it. Ambrose went home with bare lapels and a tune he could not stop humming, and he came back every autumn to stand by the stone.

On the morning the fair packed up, the stone held two roses, one red silk and one red as a cut lip. Nobody could say which had been left by the boy and which by Nell. The green headwrap was folded beside them with a single cream thread pulled through the edge, and the wagon with the painted roses never came back to Hollin Cross, though some nights the roundabout still turned on the far side of the hill.

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