Tribal dragon line drawing design
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A black ink line drawing of a stylised dragon, with its head raised at the top and a row of small spiked fins running down its back. The body curls into scroll-like loops and tapers into a spiralling tail at the bottom. The linework is bold and uniform on a plain white background, with solid black areas used for the fin and tail details.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Brother Aldous was given the margins of the psalter because his hand was too unsteady for capitals. That is how I came to draw the dragon, though I did not mean to. Prior Osric wanted only knotwork along the gutters, interlaced borders that a reader's eye could rest on while the Latin did its work. I drew the knots, and then, when the ink ran thin at the end of a long vespers, I found a neck curling out of a loop of vine and a tail coiling after it.
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Nobody saw it for three days. On the fourth, the leaf was checked against the abbey's rule, and the cellarer held it to the window and laughed, then stopped laughing, because the dragon had grown. Not in ink. Where I had left the tail open, the scroll had carried on past the margin, down the edge of the vellum and onto the table, and the little spiked fins along its back had lifted one by one, like the hackles of a cat.
We tried to scrape it away. The knife slid over the skin and left a clean white stripe, and the next morning the stripe was black again, the lines bold and even as a smith's cut. Osric prayed over it. The dragon, I am told, raised its head at the Amen.
I finished the psalter in the end, though I drew nothing else in its margins. I still see the tail when I close my eyes, coiling slowly toward the door, as if it had somewhere better to be than the page.
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