Fine line tattoo of two black outlined elephants with trunks curled together and a small purple heart, on the ankle.

Two elephants with a purple heart on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Mixed · Photo

Two simple outlined elephants face each other, with their trunks curling together beneath a small purple heart. The linework is black and fine, with open shapes and no shading. The tattoo sits on pale skin, photographed straight on against a white sheet.

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The fair pulled into Hexham the week the wind turned, and the two elephants were walked down the lane from the lorries before anyone had seen the big top raised. Bramble was the old one, grey at the chin and slow on the cobbles. Tansy was young enough that she still tried to see over the crowd. Their keeper, Orrin Vail, tied their trunks together with a length of blue rope every night so Tansy would not wander into the generator shed.

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The rope frayed. Nobody thought much of it until October, when the showground was emptied and the last ride was boarded up for winter. Orrin went into hospital with his chest, and the fair carried on to Carlisle with a relief man who did not know the elephants' names. Tansy would not eat the hay he left. She stood at the back of the pen with her head turned towards the gate, and Bramble stood beside her, her trunk looped round the young one's like a hand on a sleeve.

When Orrin came back in spring he found the rope gone and the two of them asleep against the same fence post, trunks knotted in a way no rigger had ever taught them. He did not untangle them. He sat on an upturned crate until they woke, then went to the van and came back with a pot of plum-coloured paint and a brush worn thin from years of lettering the sides of wagons.

He painted a small heart on the gate of their pen, just above the latch, and wrote nothing under it. The next keeper asked what it was for. Orrin shrugged and said the elephants knew, and they did, because from that season onward neither of them ever again walked out of a field without the other one's trunk brushing its shoulder.

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