Small black fine line outline of a triangle tattooed on a person's arm, shown lying down beside a lace top and coin embellished black shorts.

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Small outline triangle tattoo on an arm

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A fashion photograph of a person lying on white bedding, wearing black shorts decorated with a row of silver coins and a white lace top. A small, thin black outline of a triangle is tattooed on the arm at the lower left of the frame, and the tattoo is incidental to the composition. The image is in full colour overall, though the tattoo itself is in black ink only.

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Sit closer, the fire will not last past the bell, and the wind off the drowned cities never waits for anyone. You want to know how the old Lace Quarter of Port Sallow settled its debts? They did not keep purses there. They wore their wealth. A hip belt of silver discs was worth a whole season's grain, and every disc was struck with a small three-cornered sign the cutters called the sharp, to show the metal had been weighed true.

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Ysolde Marrow was a cutter's girl, sixteen and quick with a burin, and the first thing her master taught her was that a coin is only as honest as the hand that presses it. So when a stranger came down the wet steps one morning, his belt chiming like a wind chime, Ysolde did what every apprentice did. She took a fine pin, pricked the sharp into the inside of his wrist, and drew it in ink so the mark would hold. He laughed and let her do it, because a true trader always did.

The trouble came at the tide-turn. Three discs on his belt had no sharp at all, only a smooth blank edge, and when she rang one on the grinding stone it sounded thin and dull. Someone with steady hands and no conscience had copied her master's mark onto the rest, badly. Ysolde did not shout. She unhooked the belt, lace and all, and carried it to the water's edge where the old debtors' stones stood.

She dropped the false discs one by one into the harbour, and each one turned over twice before the grey water closed. The stranger watched her with a face that had lost its bargain. Then she handed him back the honest coins and told him that in Port Sallow the mark on your skin was your word, and a word was the one thing the tide could not take back. That is how the Quarter kept its debts, children. Now bank the fire, and mind the wind.

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