Black and white photo of a person with tattooed hands and forearms, showing a rose on the forearm and a cup design on the back of the hand, in a traditional style.

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Rose and cup tattoos on hands and forearms

Traditional · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black and white photograph shows a person with their face hidden behind tattooed hands. A large rose is shaded in black and grey on the forearm, with a cup or chalice design on the back of the hand and small marks on the fingers. The shading is soft and the composition is close, with the tattooed arms filling most of the frame.

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The spring on Carrick Holm had gone brackish again, so Ada carried the silver cup down the cliff path with her shawl pulled over it, the way her grandmother had carried bread to the sick. Below her the ferry was already knocking at the slip, and Tomas Vane was shouting her name as though she had kept the whole island waiting, which in a way she had.

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Nobody on Carrick could remember who first planted the rose against the chapel wall. It grew out of salt and stone, its hips black as tar and its petals the colour of old pennies, and the fishermen said it would bloom only for someone willing to give up a thing they loved to water it. Ada had never believed them. Still, she had polished that cup every Sunday since she was a girl, and she had told herself that was the sort of love the rose wanted.

She filled the cup at the spring and carried it back up the path without spilling a drop. At the wall she knelt and poured the water slowly over the roots, and the thorns lifted off her wrist as though they had been waiting to let her go. Tomas came up the path behind her, breathless, and saw the empty cup in her hands and the rose open above it, pale and dripping.

The ferry left without them that morning. By evening the cup was full of rain, and Ada had set it on the chapel sill where the gulls could drink from it, and she stopped worrying about the boat.

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