Black fine line lotus flower tattoo on the side of a raised middle finger, with a silver snake ring on the next finger.

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Small lotus tattoo on a finger

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A small outlined lotus flower sits on the side of a raised middle finger, shown against a pale speckled ground. The linework is thin and solid black with no shading, and the petals are simply drawn with a few inner lines. The composition is close and centred on the finger, with a silver ring and a bare foot visible at the edges.

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Dear Marguerite, the lamp in the galley has gone out again, so I am writing this by the grey light coming through the porthole, which is the only light we get before the watch changes. You asked in your last letter whether the crossing has made me sentimental. It has made me stubborn, which I suspect is worse. Cook has been trading tins of peaches for the boy's boots, and Mr Haddow has been sulking since Tuesday over a bet he lost on the weather.

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The thing you would have laughed at happened yesterday. We were becalmed off the bank, the water flat as a tablecloth, and the mate found a lotus pod floating past the bow, dried and split, with the seeds rattling inside like dice. He had come from a river town in the south and swore it was a sign of something. I took the pod from him and pressed it into my palm, and the old ink on the back of my hand, the one I got in Valparaíso when I was too young to know better, seemed to swell with a damp warmth. Nothing mystical. Just the sun.

We threw the seeds over the side in the end, a little ceremony for the men who asked. The water took them without a ripple. I expect they sank. Still, that evening the wind came up from nowhere, the sails filled with a crack like gunfire, and we were making eight knots before the lookout had finished shouting. I have decided that is the only sign I need. Write to me at Falmouth. Tell me the rose by the back gate has finally bloomed.

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