Black and grey photo of a person seen from behind with hair tied up, showing a small fine line Capricorn zodiac symbol tattoo on the back of the neck.

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Small zodiac symbol on the back of the neck

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A person is photographed from behind with their hair pulled up, showing a small Capricorn zodiac symbol tattooed on the back of the neck. The symbol is drawn in thin, solid black linework with no shading. The black and white photograph shows a striped top with a dark neckline and a bright window in the background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The tide-clock on Hollin Reach had stopped again, and Dessa Rook spent the first hour of her shift with its cover off, coaxing the brass gears back to life with a feather of solder. Above the hatch, someone long dead had scratched a small sign into the bulkhead: a loop at the bottom, a curl above it, like a goat's horn bent back on itself, or a fish's tail trying to become a hook. The station manual called it the sealed-lock mark and said it meant maintenance only. Dessa thought it looked more like a question.

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Her partner, Oskar Venn, came down the ladder with two mugs of kelp tea and a grievance about the pressure gauges. He had been on the reach eleven years and had stopped seeing the mark at all. "That's the flood hatch," he said. "Don't open it without the second key."

She didn't open it. She sat on the gantry with her boots hanging over the blue dark of the trench and watched the clock hands shiver and begin, reluctantly, to move. The reach had been built on a shelf where the old sea had folded itself into cliffs, and every six hours the water drew back and returned, a slow breath through the grate.

When the brass finally ticked true, Oskar said the numbers looked fine. Dessa wrote the time in the log, then drew the little mark beside it, loop and curl, the way the first surveyors must have done, so whoever came after would know the hour had held.