Fine line black arrow tattoo on the outer ankle and foot of a person lying on a bed, with the shaft running horizontally and feathered fletching at the right end.

Small arrow tattoo on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small, single black arrow is drawn in fine linework on the outer side of the ankle and foot. The arrow points left, with a thin shaft and a simple arrowhead and feathered fletching at the right end. The tattoo is in greyscale ink against light skin, and the soft, out of focus background shows bedding and a striped garment at the edges of the frame.

Fine line Ankle Arrow

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ada Rowse had a rule about fine shafts: she would not fletch one until the wind had dropped for three days running, because a feather flies true only in still air. Her grandson Tam sat on the step of the workshop above Kellan Harbour and watched her pick gull quills from the box, turning each one against the grey light until it satisfied her.

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Every arrow she made that winter was for the lamp at Scarrow Point. The keeper there, Orrin Blea, had lost two boats to the Teeth, a ring of black rock that does not show at high water. He wanted something that could be shot from the cliff onto the sand, so fishermen would know which way to row. Ada refused to make a warning. She made a direction.

On the last morning of the cold, she laid the arrow on the bench and asked Tam which way it pointed. He said left. She said that was the way the boats must turn once they had seen the light, and that the arrow was for the men still out past the rocks. She bound the final wrap with waxed thread and handed it to him without another word.

He carried it up the path to the point before the fog came in. When he loosed it over the edge, it dropped and skidded across the shingle, lying with its head pointing back along the shore toward the lamp. Orrin found it at dawn, and he left it where it fell, so that every boat coming home would see which way the light had been.