Script lettering reading it is well

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A flowing script design spells out the words "it is well" in black ink. The strokes vary in thickness, with fine hairline entry and exit flourishes linking the letters, and the large capitals and loops of the W and l extend across the composition. The design is shown in black and grey on a pale, lightly speckled background with no skin visible.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow has been coming sideways since Tuesday, and by the third night the road down to the valley is only a rumour. You are behind the desk of the Hollin Fell Inn with a pencil behind your ear and a ledger that refuses to balance, when the boy from the stables comes in stamping, a folded paper pinched between two fingers as if it might bite him.

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"Came up with the feed cart," he says. "Man at the bottom gate gave it me. Said the lady wanted it kept dry."

It is a page torn from a hymnal, the staves printed faint at the edges, and across the middle someone has written in ink so black it has bled a little into the grain: it is well. The letters lean and loop as though the hand that made them had somewhere else to be and still stopped to finish each stroke properly. The i is a single fine hair, and the l swings up and over like a rope thrown across a gap. You turn it over. Nothing on the back. No name, no room number, only a smear of candle wax the colour of weak tea.

You know who sent it, or you think you do. Mrs Abernethy in room four has been writing letters all week and asking after the post, and her son has not answered since October. You climb the back stairs with the paper held flat on your palm like a tray. At her door the lamp still glows under the gap. You knock twice and wait, and you find you are holding your breath for a reason you cannot name, until the door opens and she looks at the page, then at you, and says, "Well, then," and takes it from your hand without a word more.