Black tattoo of a Tinker Bell silhouette with a looping wand trail and outlined stars on the inner forearm.

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Tinker Bell silhouette with stars on wrist

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A solid black silhouette of the fairy Tinker Bell, with wings and a wand, sits on the inner forearm near the wrist. A thin outlined swirl trails from the wand, with four small outlined stars scattered around it. The silhouette is fully filled in with black ink, while the swirl and stars are rendered in fine single lines, on pale skin against a plain background.

Forearm Fairy Silhouette Wand Star Swirl

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Anselm has gone to Matins without you, which means the candle at the far end of the scriptorium is yours to keep alive until the bell. You bend over the vellum, a nib loaded with gall ink, and draw the long curl of the initial that will open the Psalter for Lent. The letter needs a tail. You have been trying for three days to make the tail sing, and it stubbornly lies flat.

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Then the ink catches a light that is not the candle. A speck of something rises from the well, no bigger than a barley grain, and it tugs at the tip of your pen the way a child tugs a sleeve. It has wings like the membrane of a dried leaf and a voice like a struck wineglass. It says it has come for the stars. You tell it there are no stars here, only gold leaf, and gold leaf is counted.

It laughs and draws a line across the page with its own small light, and where the light goes, the stroke you had given up on finally bends right. Four points spark in the margin, pricked out in single fine lines, and the thing settles on the edge of the page with its arms folded, watching you the way a cat watches a dish of cream.

When the bell rings you hear footsteps on the stair, and you slap the book shut, certain you will be caught. Brother Anselm pushes the door open, squints at the Psalter, and says the initial is the finest he has seen in twenty years. He does not notice the stars. Only you do, and only at night, when you open the book alone and the little light wakes up and asks for another page.