Small solid black cat silhouette tattoo on the side of a finger, with a gold ring on the neighbouring finger.

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Small black cat silhouette on a finger

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A small tattoo of a black cat silhouette with its tail raised sits on the side of a finger. The shape is a solid, filled black with smooth edges and no visible shading or interior detail. The plain skin background and the gold band on the adjacent finger keep the focus on the small motif.

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Come closer, you lot, and mind the lamp. Aye, the Bell Quay cat. Her name was Soot, though the fishwives called her the Admiral, because she walked the harbour wall each dawn as if she'd bought the lot of it and found the price fair. Black as a coal sack from nose to tail, and that tail always up, like a question she had no intention of answering.

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Now, the winter the herring went off, the boats came in with nothing but salt on their decks and debts in their pockets. Old Tobias Renn, who mended nets by the slipway, had lost his boy to a squall that autumn. He sat on the bollard every evening with a flask of cold tea and would not go home. Soot sat beside him. She did not purr or fuss. She only sat, tail up, and when the mist came in thick as wool she would stand, look out past the breakwater, and pick her way towards the sea wall. Tobias followed her every time, because a cat who knows the way home is worth following.

One night in February the fog swallowed the lighthouse beam clean away. Three cobles were out past the Skerries. Tobias stood at the end of the wall with his lantern held high, and Soot went out along the wet stone ahead of him, tail straight as a mast, stopping at each gap so the men could fix on her shape against the grey. They came in on the tide, one by one, guided by a black cat who would not be carried.

Tobias never got his boy back. But every spring after, he painted a small black cat on the stern of his dinghy, tail raised, and said that was the only chart the harbour ever needed.

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