Black and grey realistic full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a deer head among leaves with an animal head and ribbon-like lines below.

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Realistic deer and foliage full sleeve

Realism · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A realistic deer head sits at the top of a full sleeve, framed by leaves and fine wispy lines. Below it, a second animal head with a darker, textured coat is partly visible, with more foliage and flowing lines running down towards the wrist. The shading is black and grey, with soft gradients and strong contrast across the deer's face and the foliage.

Realism Upper arm Forearm Deer Leaves Animal Foliage Sleeve

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The hind came to the gate again on the third morning of frost, and Brother Oswin, who had been sweeping leaves off the cloister steps since Candlemas, set down his broom and opened the wicket without being told. Nobody at Saint Wenna's had ever seen a deer so near the walls. The abbot said it was a sign. The cellarer said it was a hungry beast and sent a loaf out on a board.

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It did not eat the bread. It stood with its head low and one ear turned towards the wood, and every so often it looked back at Oswin as if he ought to know something already. Behind it, in the bracken where the path ran under the oaks, a grey-black shape shifted and grunted and did not come out. Oswin had heard the boar spoken of in the refectory for years, though no one had seen it. They called it the hermit's pig, after the old man who had died in the chapel and left his lantern unlit.

On the fourth morning Oswin followed. The leaves came down around them in a slow, bright spill, and the hind walked ahead along a track he had never noticed, where ivy hung in ropes from every branch. At the bottom of a hollow stood the hermit's cell, roofless, with a beech growing up through the floor. The boar lay asleep beside the hearth, its flank rising and falling like a slow tide. The hind bent its head and touched the cold lantern on the sill with its antler tips, and the wick, which had been dry for thirty years, took the flame.

When Oswin climbed back to the gate at dusk, the abbot was waiting with the bell rope in his hands. Oswin told him what he had seen, plainly, and the abbot listened without interrupting. Then he let the rope go slack and said nothing about hunting that winter, or any winter after.