Close-up of two hands held palm up, with a black script lettering tattoo reading Whom then shall I fear on the right wrist.

Script quote on the wrist

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Two hands are held palm up towards the camera, showing a black script tattoo on the inner right wrist with the words Whom then on the upper line and shall I fear below. The lettering is in a flowing cursive style with fine, even strokes. A pale pink beaded bracelet sits on the left wrist, and the blurred white clothing and green background are out of focus.

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Mrs Ashdown kept the lamp lit on the twelfth landing of Coronet House because the council had stopped paying the man who used to do it. Every evening she climbed the forty-one steps with a paraffin tin and a rag, and every evening the boys from the ground floor laughed at her and sat on the rail to watch.

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Her granddaughter Nell came to live with her the winter the lifts failed for good. Nell was nine and believed nothing, least of all the story the boys told to frighten the little ones about the thing that lived in the stairwell. "It only wants you to be scared," her gran said, wiping soot from the glass. "Give it nothing to be scared of and it goes back down to the cellar."

One night the lamp went out before Gran reached the top, and Nell heard feet on the stairs below, slow and patient, the same feet at every landing. Her gran did not hurry. She set the tin down, took Nell's cold hand in both of hers and said the words her own mother had taught her, not as a prayer exactly, but as a question put to the dark: whom then shall I fear? The steps stopped. Somewhere far below, a door clicked shut.

Nell asked afterwards what had been on the stairs. Her gran shrugged and said it was only the cellar's idea of company. Nell never saw the lamp go out again, but she kept the words in her head like a coin in a pocket, and when she was grown and moved south to a flat with a working lift, she still said them on the stairs out of habit.

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