Black fine line and dotwork tattoo of a tent beneath pine trees and a crescent moon in a dotted night sky, on the back of a knee.

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Tent under pines and a crescent moon

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A night camping scene showing a single tent at the base, surrounded by tall pine trees of varying heights and a crescent moon in the upper right. The sky is filled with dense stippled dots, and the ground is shaded with fine hatched lines. The tattoo is done entirely in black ink with grey-toned shading created by dot density, and it sits on the skin with the surrounding leg filling the frame.

Fine line Dotwork Other Tent Pine tree Crescent moon Star Night sky Camping Forest

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By the time the fiddler packed up, the only thing still standing in the clearing was the old canvas tent Auntie Morag had insisted on pitching under the pines. Nobody had asked me to help with it. I was simply the one who hadn't gone to bed, so I knelt in the bracken with a mallet, a torch wedged in my collar and a peg that wouldn't go in.

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The wood was loud in the way only a Scottish wood is loud after dark. Owls, something rustling in the bracken that I chose not to think about, and Tom's uncle singing badly about a herring girl somewhere behind the marquee. Above the treetops the moon had thinned to a clipped fingernail, and the sky was so thick with stars it looked dusted, as if someone had gone over the whole dark with a stipple brush and not stopped until the page was full.

Morag came out in her good wool coat over her nightdress and watched me fight the peg. 'Your grandfather did that in the rain at Tarbert,' she said. 'Wrong end of the mallet, both times.' She took it from me, and the peg slid home with one clean knock that rang off every trunk. Then she lowered herself onto the upturned creel by the entrance and said nothing for a long while, which for Morag is a speech.

I woke at six with the torch still in my hand. The tent sagged grey under a sky going pale, the pines were dripping, and the creel had been turned the right way up. Morag had gone back to the lodge already. On the seat she'd left a sprig of heather and a scrap of paper in her looping hand: Wake me before the vows. Don't let the bride see the mud.