Realistic colour tattoo of a man in a dark brimmed hat with a red band, on the lower leg.

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Realism portrait of a man in a hat on the calf

Realism · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A realistic portrait of a man in a dark brimmed hat and a light collared shirt, looking downward with a faint smile. The face is shaded in soft greys and skin tones with fine detail around the eyes and mouth, and a red band runs across the lower edge. Above the portrait, a pale, faded background shows a few muted pink and orange shapes, and the composition wraps around the leg.

Realism Calf Portrait Man Hat Face

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Pell had picked the last of the Ashcombe Russets by the first week of September, and the orchard had gone quiet the way it always did once the pickers left. So when the man in the dark hat came up the lane that evening, she was already counting windfalls into the cider barrels.

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He didn't want apples. He wanted the one tree at the bottom wall, the old crooked one that nobody had grafted since her grandfather's time, and he said so with a faint smile, as if the tree had told him its own name. Pell told him the tree was worth nothing to anyone but the wasps. He said that was exactly why he'd come.

They bargained until the light went orange over the hedge. He offered coins with the king's head worn flat, a red silk cord he tied around the gate post, and a promise to keep his eyes lowered whenever he passed the house, which Pell thought an odd currency until she realised he meant it. In the end she gave him the tree for a single bite of the russet she'd kept in her apron pocket.

The next spring the blossom came out thick and pink against a pale sky, and the crooked tree bore fruit that tasted of smoke and cloves. Pell never saw the man again. She did keep the cord, and every autumn she tied it to the first barrel, so that the cider would know whose orchard it came from.