Small black bird silhouette tattoo on a woman's bare back, with silver chains draped over a pale backless dress.

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Small bird tattoo on the back

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A close photograph of a person's bare back, cropped so the head is not visible. A small solid black bird in flight sits on the side of the back, and the image has a soft, slightly warm tone. Silver chains hang across a pale pink backless top, and a hand with rings is visible at the lower right against a grey gravel background.

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The last tram had gone and the gravel yard behind the old brick warehouse still held the day's heat. Marisol counted the chains on the dress she had borrowed from her sister, three silver lengths swinging against her spine every time she shifted her weight. Across the yard, a cab idled with its lights off, and the driver had stopped pretending not to watch her.

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She had come to collect a debt, not a man. Teodor Vance owed her father forty pounds and a favour, and he had promised both at the wharf bar on Tuesday, between two pints and a lie about his boat. Tonight he had sent a note saying he would meet her by the loading doors. He was not there. Only a gull sat on the iron railing, grey and patient, its wings folded like an umbrella somebody had forgotten to shake out.

She waited until the gull lifted off and crossed the yard in a long, unhurried curve, out over the roofs toward the river. Marisol watched it go and understood, a little too late, that it had been the only thing in the yard keeping an appointment. Behind her the warehouse door rolled up with a shriek of rust. Teodor's cousin stepped out holding an envelope, and she took it without a word, because a gull had just shown her how little patience was worth.

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