Black handwritten script lettering on the inner forearm of a person, with a brush touching the skin near the start of the line.

Script quote on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close view of a forearm with thin, cursive script in dark ink running from the wrist towards the elbow. A hand holding a fine brush is working near the start of the line, with some white residue visible on the skin. The warm-toned photograph has a soft focus and a green wooden surface and white paper in the background.

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Nell had been picking since six, and by eleven the wasps had found the windfalls under the Bramley row. The ladder still leaned against the press house wall where Uncle Tomas had left it in August, and the tin of gold leaf sat unopened on the bench beside his last letter. It was pencilled on the back of a seed merchant's invoice, the hand loose and sloping the way it went when his knees were bad and he wrote standing up.

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Most of it was about the frost and the price of cider apples. The last line was different. He had written it twice, once firm and once fast, as if he had changed his mind halfway through: Follow me and I will show you how to be free. Beneath it he had drawn a small ladder with four rungs, and a wasp with its wings open.

She did not believe in messages, but she believed in ladders. She carried the tin out into the sun, pulled the stiff brush from its jar of turpentine and climbed to the top rung, where the wall was still warm from the day. The old lettering on the door had flaked to nothing, so she painted his sentence over the bare wood, letter by letter, the way he would have, with the tip of her tongue between her teeth.

By the time she reached the word free the wasps had gone quiet and the light had turned the colour of honey on the gold. She stepped down, wiped her fingers on her jeans and looked back at the door. Anyone walking the lane would read it. She wondered who he had meant to follow, and whether she had already started.

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