Black silhouette tattoo wrapping around an upper arm, showing a girl, an owl in a tree, a rabbit and mushrooms in a blackwork style.

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Silhouette girl, owl and tree on an upper arm

Blackwork · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A black silhouette scene wraps around the upper arm, showing a girl in a dress standing beside a rabbit among flowers and foliage. On the opposite side, an owl perches in a tree with a heart-shaped hollow, beside a rabbit, toadstools, grass and a fence, with stars and pear-shaped leaves scattered across both sides. The design uses solid black ink with no grey shading or colour, and the image is a close, evenly lit photo of the arm.

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The frost had stripped the last pears off the old tree before Nan said the owl had come back to it, and I didn't believe her until I saw her cutting card at the kitchen table that night. She worked the big shears in slow bites, folding black paper into fans, and never once looked up. When she opened them out there were rabbits, a fence, a girl in a full skirt, and a little tree with a heart punched through its trunk.

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I took the torch out past the byre after supper. The fence rails were rimed white and the stars were coming out thick over the orchard, sharp as pin holes in dark card. The owl sat in the hollow shaped like a heart and turned its face towards me without moving anything else. Two rabbits sat by the bottom rail, unbothered, ears down. I stood there long enough for my breath to cloud and my fingers to go numb inside my gloves.

When I reached for the top rail something dropped from the branch and landed on my boot. It was a leaf cut from black card, shaped like a pear, with a single hole punched through its middle so the torch made a small bright star on the snow. On the back, in Nan's sloping pencil, was a date and the word Thursday, which was the day she'd promised to teach me the shears.

I carried it home inside my coat. Nan was still at the table with a little heap of offcuts beside her. I pinned the pear to the window next to the girl, and the lamp threw both their shadows across the frost on the glass, as if they had always been standing out there together.

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