Small red and black ladybird tattoo on the upper chest, with fingers holding the skin at the edge of the frame.

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Small ladybird tattoo on chest

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A small ladybird is tattooed on pale skin on the upper chest, shown from above at an angle. The insect has a red body with black spots and a black head and outline, with some shading on the body. The soft-focus skin and dark clothing edge frame the tattoo, while two fingers with red and pink nail polish hold the skin at the bottom of the image.

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Mara Penrose counted the ladybirds on the sill every dawn, because her grandfather had told her the count foretold the weather. Forty meant a settled week. Four meant someone would be sorry. She kept the tally in pencil on the back of the lamp-room log, between the oil readings and the wind bearings, and the numbers had never once lied to her.

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The morning the Hesketh boat went out there were nine, scattered over the brass rail like spilled sealing wax. She had counted them twice before the glass began to rattle in its frame. By noon the sky over Gull Stack had turned the colour of slate, the swell came up grey and fast, and the wick in the great lens guttered as the wind pushed down the tower.

She climbed with a fresh tin of paraffin and found the insects had crowded into the seams of the lens housing, a red clot of them, wings tucked tight. She knew it was foolishness, but she brushed them into her palm, warm and dry, and set them along the sill where the flame could reach them. Then she trimmed the wick until it roared, and the beam swung out over the water, and on every wave it broke into a scatter of red and black dots that no sailor could mistake for anything but a light.

Hesketh's lamp answered from the stern at dusk. Mara wrote the count in the log at midnight: nine, all of them still on the sill, and beside it, in a smaller hand, one more she had not expected to see. In the morning there were ten, and she never did work out where the tenth had come from, so she left the column open and let the numbers keep their secret.

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