Small black fine line wave tattoo on the side of the torso near the ribs, on sun-warmed skin dusted with sand.

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Small fine line wave on the side of the body

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A small, single-line wave outline in black ink sits on the side of the torso, curling to the right with a tapered tail. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, and the ink is crisp against the warm skin tone. The tattoo sits off-centre in the frame, with the soft shadow of the body and a light sprinkling of sand around it.

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The sea came up the lane at Morrow Cove the night after the lodgers' trunks were carried down, and by morning it had taken the bootscraper, two hens and Mr Dacre's second-best hat. Nobody in Gull Rest thought to lock the back gate, because nobody in Morrow Cove had ever believed the sea would bother with a gate.

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Ruth Penhale, who ran the house, went down at first light with a pail and a tin of washing soda. Her grandmother had told her the sea keeps accounts, and a debt can be settled if you bring it something small and whole. Not a chipped cup or a loose button, her grandmother said, but a thing you would truly miss. Ruth stood at the tideline for an hour turning her silver thimble over in her palm before she could bring herself to do it.

When the next wave curled over the shingle she dropped the thimble into its hollow and said the old words plainly, without raising her voice: take the tail and leave the head. The water drew back in one clean stroke, a single line of foam like a pen lifting from paper. Mr Dacre's hat lay on the sand beside her, dry and folded in four, as if someone had ironed it.

The thimble never came back, and the hens did not either, but the sea kept its side of the bargain. For a month the stair carpet at Gull Rest gathered sand after every rain, and the lodgers swore the house was always a little at sea. Ruth swept it up each morning and never once swept it all the way out.

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