Three small black star tattoos in fine line style on the inner wrist, with red French tip nails visible above.

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Three small stars on the wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Three small five-pointed star shapes sit close together on the inner wrist. They are drawn in thin black linework with simple, unshaded interiors. The colour is solid black ink against pale skin, and the tattoos are placed off-centre towards the thumb side of the wrist.

Fine line Forearm Star

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Anselm had the ink wrong again, and the abbot's candle was guttering down to a stub by the time I reached the third column. I scraped the vellum with my knife and started over, the way I had every night since Michaelmas, because the star tables were the one task the old prior had left to me, and he had said nothing about how long I might take.

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The chart was for the sea-men at Saltcote, who came up the chalk road each spring asking for a true reckoning of the northern sky. Three stars had sat above the chapel roof on the night the old brother died, close together as sheep in a pen, and I had sketched them in the margin with a reed pen so fine they barely showed. Nobody else in the house had looked up that night. I had.

When I finally finished the column, I carried the page out into the cloister. Frost had got into the grass. Above the wall the three stars hung exactly where my drawing said they would, thin as scratches on glass. I stood there until my feet went numb and found that I was not sorry about the ink after all.

In the morning I gave the chart to the carter's boy and told him to tell the captain the stars would hold until midsummer. He laughed at me. I let him.