Small black and grey yin yang tattoo on the upper back of a person lying on white bed sheets, with a black strappy top across the back.

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Small yin yang on upper back

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A small yin yang symbol sits on the upper back, close to the shoulder blade, of a person lying face down on white bedding. The circle is rendered in black ink with grey shading that gives the two halves some dimension. The bare back fills the centre of the frame, with white sheets and pillows around it and a few thin black straps crossing the lower back.

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Ilse Varro found the stone on the third dry season after the Drowning, when the wells at Coldhaven had sunk to mud and the pumps coughed like old men. It was a flat disc the size of a palm. One face was scorched black as a cooking pot, the other pale as bone, and the two halves curled into each other around a pair of small dark eyes pressed into the grey. Her grandmother said such stones were for finding water. Nobody had told her how to read one.

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She carried it up the ridge to the old pump house, where the brothers Tam and Rook were arguing over the valve. Rook wanted to bore deeper into the black rock. Tam wanted to wait for the sea fog that rolled in each night. Ilse set the stone on the valve wheel and turned it so the black face caught the sun, then the grey face caught the sea wind. The brothers watched the dial needle wobble and settle. Neither would admit they had been holding their breath.

By morning the water had risen in the lower cistern, cold and sweet, though no one could say which half of the stone had given it. The brothers still quarrelled about it at every meal. Ilse kept the disc in her coat pocket and turned it over whenever the pumps faltered, and she never once chose a side.

By the next winter her thumb had worn both eyes pale, and the children of Coldhaven swore the two of them had finally agreed on something.

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