Fine line tattoo of a red heart-shaped balloon with a thin black looping string, on the inner wrist and forearm, beside a silver bangle.

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Red heart balloon on the inner wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A small tattoo of a solid red heart-shaped balloon sits at the top of a thin black string that loops down the inner forearm towards the wrist. The balloon is filled with flat red ink with a slightly lighter highlight, while the string is drawn in a delicate single black line with loose curls. The plain, softly lit background and silver bangles keep the focus on the tattoo.

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Brother Tobias had rung the bell at Saint Oswin's for thirty-one winters, and in all that time nobody had given him anything red. The abbot held that colour belonged to the fair, and the fair belonged to the town below the moor. So when Mab the pedlar came up the lane on a wet Tuesday with balloons tied to her cart, the brothers kept their eyes on the gravel.

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Tobias did not. He paid her a penny from the poor box, which the cellarer later counted twice, and took the one shaped like a heart because it was the only one that did not look like a pig.

He carried it to the cloister, where Sister Alys sat with her bundle. The sisters of the lower house were being sent east on the morning cart, and she had asked for nothing. He tied the string to her wrist with the knot his father had used for lambs. "It will not go far," he said. "It only wants to see the road."

The wind came off the moor before dawn. The string ran through her fingers, looping and curling as it went, and the heart rose over the wall like a coal lifting from a grate. Alys wept and laughed at once, which the old women said was the true sign of a pilgrim. At matins Tobias climbed the tower and found the bell rope hanging bare. Far below, on the road, the red dot was still climbing, and he did not ring.

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