Small solid black silhouette tattoo of two sitting cats with curling tails, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.

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Two cats silhouette on the upper back

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The tattoo shows two black cat silhouettes sitting side by side and angled towards each other, with their tails curling outwards. It is a solid black fill with no visible shading or linework detail. The small design sits on pale skin against a dark background, with a black bra strap visible across the upper frame.

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Mrs Pargeter swore the two cats had been sitting on the bakehouse wall since the day the mill shut, one on each side of the coping stone, neither of them once looking at the other. The village children counted them every morning on the way to school and got different numbers depending on whether the sun was behind the chapel.

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By the autumn of 1956 the wall had become a kind of parish clock. Mr Dunnage set his watch by the taller cat, which sat with its tail curled out like a question mark, and the vicar's wife said the smaller one only came down off the roof when it rained on the other side. Nobody bothered the cats. You didn't, in Stannard Cross, not with the old woman at number nine who could tell a bad harvest from the back of a hand.

The turn came with the flood that November, when the brook came up over Mill Lane and the bakehouse took two feet of water. Pargeter's boy found the taller cat on the roof of the bread oven, soaked and furious, and the smaller one stood on the wall with the water lapping at its paws, not moving at all. Then the taller one came down the ladder, crossed the wet stones in three neat steps, and sat down beside it, their tails curling toward each other like the ends of a ribbon.

The water went down by morning. The wall stayed as it was, but the two of them were never again seen apart, and when Mrs Pargeter died the following spring her grandson found them cut small into the lintel above the door, angled in toward one another, facing the lane.

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