Small black fine line arrow tattoo on the side of a finger on a hand resting on a white paper towel.

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Small arrow tattoo on a finger

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A hand rests palm down on white paper with medical tape nearby. A small black tattoo of an arrow with a few short horizontal lines sits on the side of one finger, near the knuckle. The ink is dark and simple, with thin linework, and the photo is in natural colour with no other ink visible.

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Wenna knew the arrow had gone wide before it struck the beech. She crouched in the bracken at the edge of Hollin Wood, where the last cottages of Ashcombe leaned their shoulders against the trees, and listened to the shaft shiver in the bark. Three short lines were scored into the fletching, one for each winter her father had spent teaching her to read the wind. She had cut them herself with his knife.

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Her father had kept a tally on the lintel of the bowyer's shed, one notch for every hare, pheasant and lost bolt. Nobody in the village would say how many deer the forest had taken from them since the Carrow family moved up the lane. Wenna went to the beech and worked the arrow free. Its point had bent against a knot. She straightened it across her knee the way he had shown her, pressing slowly until the steel stopped complaining.

When she came back down through the bracken the bells had stopped. Mrs Pell was at the gate with a basket of windfall apples and asked whether the deer had come. Wenna said no. It was the first lie she had told in that village, and it settled low in her chest like a stone.

That evening she took the knife to the lintel and cut a fourth line, shallow and crooked, then set the arrow above the door with its point towards the wood. Let the forest keep its deer a while longer. Some marks were for counting the things you had not taken.

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