Small black outline tattoo of an angel with a halo and wings holding a heart, placed on the ankle above a striped sock.

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Small angel holding a heart on an ankle

Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small tattoo of a simple angel with a halo, rounded wings and a flowing gown, holding a small outlined heart in one hand. The linework is single-weight black with little or no shading, and the design is drawn in a loose, hand-drawn style. The tattoo sits on the lower leg just above the ankle, with a striped sock visible at the bottom of the frame.

Ankle Angel Halo Wing Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mags Tindall had three weeks before the carrier came up the lane for the last of the wool, and her son still had not come home from the charcoal burners' camp at the far end of Hollin Wood. She stood at the gate with the lamp in one hand and a stub of chalk in the other, because her boy had left the slate on the sill with a drawing half finished, and she had decided that whatever he was doing out there, she would not be the one to leave a thing unfinished.

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The path into the trees ran past the old oak where the village tied its lost-property rags, strips of red cloth fluttering for luck. She did not expect to meet anyone. What she met was a small winged figure sitting on the stump, its gown pooled round it like spilt milk, a halo hovering a finger's width above its head. It held a heart in one hand, outlined and empty, as if someone had drawn the shape and forgotten to fill it.

"You're late," the angel said, in her boy's voice, though it was plainly not him. "He said you would be."

Mags sat down beside it on the cold wood and took the chalk from her pocket. Between them they drew the rest of the heart, slowly, one line at a time, and the angel's wings lifted like a bird shaking off rain. Down the hill a dog barked, the lamp guttered, and the trees parted to let a thin figure walk out with its hands in its pockets, whistling the way her boy always did when he was pretending not to be frightened.