Small fine line tattoo of a yellow bear with a tiny red butterfly on the inner wrist, shown in a close photo.

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Small bear and butterfly on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A small tattoo of a storybook style bear in ochre and yellow tones sits on the inner wrist, with a tiny red butterfly to its upper left. The bear has thin dark outlines and soft, unshaded fills, giving a simple hand-drawn look. The tattoo is centred on a plain skin background with a softly blurred outdoor setting behind the arm.

Fine line Forearm Bear Butterfly Wrist tattoo

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, and mind the fire, because this is the part of the tale where the honey goes missing. In the kingdom of Hallowmere, which you will not find on any map my grandmother ever drew, there lived a bear the colour of toast left a moment too long in the oven. His name was Ambrose Tuppence, though nobody called him that except the bees, who were very formal about such things.

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Ambrose kept the honey stores for the castle of Greyfern. Every autumn he rolled the barrels up the hill on a wooden cart, and every autumn the barrels came back lighter by one jar, and nobody could say who was taking it. The steward blamed the cook. The cook blamed the wind. The king, a fussy man with a crown too big for his head, ordered a guard posted at the cellar door.

So on the night of the first frost, Ambrose sat outside that door with a lantern and a flask of cold tea, and he waited. Near midnight a small red butterfly landed on his nose. It was the sort of butterfly that only appears in the last week of October, when the year has grown tired of itself. "I am very hungry," said the butterfly, "and you are very slow to notice me."

Ambrose laughed until the lantern shook. Then he fetched the last jar from under the stairs, prised off the lid, and sat with the butterfly while it ate, the two of them watching the frost climb the window glass like a slow sunrise. The king never learned the truth of it. Some say he was happier for not knowing, and the bees, being formal, have never once mentioned it.