Fine line botanical sprig tattoo on the back of a woman's neck, with her dark hair pulled up into a high bun.

Small sprig tattoo on the back of the neck

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A woman is photographed from behind, showing a small dark tattoo on the back of her neck. The design is a slender sprig with a few leaves and a small bloom, drawn in fine, delicate linework. The tattoo is in black ink against pale skin, set against her high bun, a sleeveless light sparkly dress and a softly blurred background.

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The last tent still smelled of wet sawdust when Nell found the cutting in the tack trunk, a sprig of rosemary wrapped in tissue gone the colour of weak tea. Her father had carried it from Margate to Hull to Doncaster, insisting it kept the horses steady, though the horses had been sold off in 1987 and nobody had ever asked him why he still kept the sprig.

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She turned it over under the bulb hanging from the centre pole. Three leaves, one bloom no bigger than a button, and a stem so fine it barely held together. Someone had drawn it in the margin of a ledger years back, then pricked it into a forearm with a sewing needle and ink, the way travelling people did when the doctor was too far away. Her grandmother's hand, possibly. Nell had never been sure which version the family had agreed to tell.

The council wanted the field by Friday. The bank wanted the van. Dalgliesh, the strongman who had taught her to juggle knives, sat on an upturned crate and said nothing, which was how he said most things now.

She pinned the sprig inside the ledger, bloom facing up, and wrote beneath it in pencil: last season, still green. Then she walked out into the grey morning to tell the others the show was over, and found the grass already wet with dew on a field they would not be keeping.

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