Fine line tattoo of three flying silhouettes filled with blue, purple and pink starry shading, placed on the neck behind the ear.

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Three flying silhouettes behind the ear

Fine line · Neck · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows three flying figures in silhouette, one larger figure in blue and purple at the top and two smaller figures in pink and red trailing below. Each silhouette has a fine outline and a speckled, starry fill that shifts from blue to pink. The design sits on the neck behind the ear, with the ear and dark hair framing the composition.

Fine line Neck Silhouette Flying figure Star Galaxy Fairy Child Ear

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lock keeper's boy had his hand on the paddle when the three came up off the water, and he let the windlass drop into the mud rather than look away.

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They rose dark against the sky, the eldest a long way ahead, the two small ones trailing like wet washing on a line. Their coats were the blue of the river at dusk, and now and then the blue turned to rose where a star had caught in the cloth. Everyone on the barges knew the tale. Three lamplighter's daughters had been sent across the ice for oil in a hard winter, the ice had taken the path, so they had walked up into the air instead and never come down.

The boy's father said they were only gulls with the sun behind them. His mother said nothing and put the kettle on, which was how she always said she had seen something she did not want to name. The boy waited at the gate until the last small shape was a speck over the poplars, then climbed onto the beam and lifted his arms, because the tale also said that whoever waved back would be carried on the next wind to wherever the lamps were lit.

He waved. Nothing lifted him. But the next morning the frost had drawn three small shapes on the cabin window, blue at the top and pink below, and his mother left them there all winter.