Black script lettering reading To The Moon with a long underline swash on a plain grey background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.

To The Moon script lettering design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the words To The Moon written in flowing black copperplate-style script on a plain grey background. A single long, tapering swash line runs beneath the lettering, with a slight thickening near its centre. The design is rendered in solid black with no shading or colour, and the text is centred with generous space around it.

Lettering Script Lettering Moon Word Swash

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The clay is still soft under your thumb when Idrin, the caravan master, ducks under the awning of your booth and asks for one more line before the gate shuts at dusk. You have already pressed salt, oil and the price of two donkeys into the tablet. He wants something for the road, something he can have read aloud to his wife when the caravan turns back at the river. You tell him the reed is too blunt for poetry. He says he has never trusted poetry, which is why he pays you in silver.

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So you set the words in a column, curving like the crescent above the rooftops, and beneath them you draw one long stroke of reed that tapers eastward, the way the road thins out past the irrigation ditches. Idrin frowns at the stroke. It is only a line, you tell him. It is what a scribe adds when the words are not quite enough to carry the weight.

He takes the tablet in both hands and reads it with his lips moving, saying nothing for so long that the lamp-seller begins packing up his wicks. Then he asks what you charged him. Nothing, you say, and he nods as though that was the answer he expected. Two moons later a boy brings a clay disc back from the river stop, scratched with only a crescent and a smear of thumbprint. You keep it on the shelf beside the salt jars, where the evening light finds it first.