Black and grey fine line script reading Ella Grace, crossed by two arrows with flourishes, on the inner upper arm.

Script name and arrows on an arm

Lettering · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A black ink script name, Ella Grace, is set across the centre of the image with two arrows passing behind it, one from each side. Fine, fairly even linework forms the lettering and flourishes, with small dotted shading on the arrowheads and feathers. The tattoo is shown in greyscale on smooth skin, with the photo cropped close to the arm against a blurred background.

Lettering Fine line Upper arm Name Script Arrow Flourish

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The bridge at Kell had been broken since the spring flood, so the two villages shouted across the water instead, and for three summers they shouted nothing but insults. Then Tamsin Rowe, who kept geese on the west bank, tied a message to an arrow and fired it over the reeds at the miller's son.

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The arrow dropped short in the mud. Pieter Holt waded out for it, found a scrap of birch bark pinned to the shaft, and read the words scratched there in a careful hand: Oona Vey, who never lies about the price of eels. Under the name someone had drawn a second arrow pointing the other way. He stood in the cold water until his boots filled, then shot back at dawn with a reply that said only, Come and read it yourself.

They met at the broken span on midsummer's eve, each standing on a different stone pier with the current loud between them. They passed letters by arrow for the rest of their lives, and their children learned the knot the way other children learned their prayers. When the river finally took the last of the pilings, the carved sign above the old ferry house still bore both families' names in one looping hand.

On the morning of the wedding, the miller's son fired a final arrow across the water. It landed in the goose pen with a strip of bark tied to its shaft, and the bark said only, The river was never as wide as it looked from the bank.