Black and white photo of a small fine line arrow tattoo with a flower-shaped head on a pale limb, set against a floral patterned backdrop.

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Small arrow tattoo with flower head

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A small black arrow tattoo with a flower-shaped head sits on a pale limb, with a dark bracelet visible above it. The linework is thin and precise, with light shading in the flower head. The photograph is black and white, set against a soft floral patterned backdrop.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the bees, lad, and sit where I can see your face, because this is the part people always get wrong. The archer was Tobias Hale, and he was no good at anything but aiming. He shot at the rooks that came down on the walled garden at Coldharbour every June, and one morning his arrow sailed clean over the rooks, over the wall, and dropped into the bed of foxgloves by the sundial. Nobody thought more of it. Old Mrs Quill was the gardener then, and she had a rule: whatever falls in her beds is hers to keep.

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So she went to fetch it, and when she pulled it from the soil the head had split open the way a bud does. Petals where the barbs had been. The shaft was still good ash and the fletching still crow-black, but the tip had decided it was a flower and was not giving that up.

Tobias came round the wall the next day wanting his arrow back. Mrs Quill gave him a cup of tea and a plain answer. You can have it, she said, when it stops blooming. He laughed at her, and he was still laughing when the first frost came and the bloom was still open on the point, bright as a coin in the grey.

He never did get his arrow back. He stayed to dig the beds with her instead, and that is how the garden came to have a gardener called Hale.

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