Fine line black tattoo of two arrows, one with feathered fletching, on the inner forearm near the wrist.

Two arrows on the inner wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a small tattoo on the inner forearm, showing two arrows running vertically, the upper one with feathered fletching and the lower one plainer. The linework is thin and even, rendered in black ink with no shading. The image is shot in soft daylight against a grey background, with a slim silver chain bracelet on the wrist and the hand hanging loosely.

Fine line Forearm Arrow Feather Bracelet

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Osric had cut the goose feathers himself, three from the left wing of the grey bird his brother shot at Michaelmas, and he sat in the doorway of the fletcher's shed trimming the last of them while the rain came in sideways off the marsh. His brother Tam was already at the gate, bow across his back, waiting for the light to change so they could walk the causeway to the lord's hunt.

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"That one's crooked," Tam said.

"The one with the feathers is for the high mark. The plain one goes to the ford, where you need it to fly straight and not show off." Osric held them up against the grey. The feathered shaft was the better work and he knew it. The plain shaft had nothing to hide.

They walked out before the tide turned. At the ford Tam loosed the plain arrow at a heron standing in the shallows and missed by a hand's width, and the bird lifted without hurry. Tam laughed and reached for the feathered one, but Osric had already taken it from him, sighted along the marsh to the church tower two miles off, and let it go. It went up into the wet air and kept going, a thin dark line, until the rain swallowed it.

They found it three days later in the churchyard yew, its fletching torn but its head whole, and Osric hung it above the door of the shed where anyone could see it. Tam never again asked him why the crooked one flew further than the straight.