Realistic colour tattoo of a ladybird on a leg, covered by clear plastic wrap, with a green and yellow wash behind it.

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Realistic ladybird tattoo on a leg

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A red ladybird with black spots and a blue-black head sits on a green leaf-like area with a yellow wash behind it. The wings have soft shading and glossy highlights, and the legs and body are drawn with fine detail. Clear plastic wrap covers the area, and other tattoo linework is visible at the top right and bottom left edges.

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The ladybird lands on the order of service just as the vicar gets your surname wrong, and you decide that counts as a sign. Aunt Mags swears by them. Red for luck, she said at breakfast, seven spots for seven years of good weather, and you told her that was a lot to pin on an insect that couldn't tell a marquee from a hedge.

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It walks the length of the pew, stopping at the spine of the hymnal, then the brass rail, then the bent corner of the programme. Through the open door the lane runs down to the water meadow where your father rowed hire boats for thirty summers. Nobody else notices. The organist hits a wrong note and the whole congregation laughs, and in the noise you lift your hand and the small red thing climbs onto your knuckle as if it had booked the seat.

Afterwards, in the car park, you tip it onto a dandelion leaf by the churchyard wall. It opens its wing cases with a little click, like a catch giving way, and goes. Your new husband asks what you were doing. Counting, you say, and he doesn't ask what, which is one of the reasons you married him.

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