Fine line tattoo of two birds in flight on the inner forearm, shown in grey ink beside a hand with red nails.

Two birds on an inner forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two small birds in flight are outlined in thin grey linework on the inner forearm. Soft grey-blue shading sits in the wings and the lower body of each bird, and the background is plain skin. The photo is a warm, casual close-up with a hand resting on a white sheet at the top right.

Fine line Forearm Bird Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, the wind off the moat takes half of what I say, and the rest you'll want to keep for yourselves. Mind the loose stone by your boot, that one has been waiting three hundred winters to take a child's ankle.

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Up in the broken chapel of Wrenmoor there were two swifts, though some say doves, who built in the east window where the glass had gone. The one with the darker underwing was called Tallow by the cook, because she sang the mass wrong. The other had no name at all, only a grey scratch on one wing from the portcullis chain the night the siege came. Every morning they flew out together over the drawbridge, down to the salt marsh where the king's men had burned the mill.

Lord Aldous stood on the wall one winter with his crossbow and swore he'd bring one down for the supper table. He drew, but his hand shook from the cold and the wine, and the bolt went into the reeds. The birds did not fall. They wheeled above him, so close he felt the wind of them on his face, and then they settled on the cracked lintel over his head and waited for him to go home.

Lord Aldous died in his bed that spring, and the castle emptied year by year until only the walls were left. The swifts are gone now too, or so you'd think. But on still evenings, when the marsh mist rises, look up at the east window and count. Two shapes, wings spread, always leaving, never quite gone. Now, who wants the part about the miller's daughter?