Two black and grey fox tattoos, one running along the inner forearm near the elbow and one on the upper chest near the collarbone, both shaded in soft greys.

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Two fox tattoos on arm and collarbone

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two matching fox tattoos sit on separate parts of the body, one on the inner forearm close to the elbow and one on the upper chest by the collarbone. Each fox is shown mid-stride in profile, with fine outlines and soft grey shading that gives the fur some texture and depth. The ink is entirely black and grey against plain skin, with a dark top and a domestic indoor background in the photo.

Realism Forearm Chest Fox Animal Pair

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The windfalls have begun splitting on the grass by the far wall, and the wasps find them before you do. Your uncle says the vixen is back. You don't believe him until dusk, when something low and russet comes out between the Discovery trees with one forefoot lifted, as if the ground were too hot to trust. She crosses the whole orchard in four strides and is gone under the hedge before you have finished holding your breath.

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After that you learn to stand still. Uncle Ferdy keeps a tin of sardines in the shed for whatever lives under the potting bench, and each evening you carry it out, prise the lid back and set it on the flattest stone you can find. You count the apples the foxes have left. Some nights the tin is licked clean, some nights the stone is bare, and once there is a neat line of prints in the dew that runs right up to your boots and then turns, as if whoever made them only wanted to see what you were.

By the last week of August there are two sets of tracks, one large and one small, always stepping in the same worn path between the rows. Ferdy says a fox that stops is a fox that gets caught, so you stop yourself, which is harder. You don't take a photograph. You just watch the pair of them cross the grass, the smaller one a half-stride behind, neither of them once looking back at the house.

On the last evening you leave the tin on the wall instead of the stone. In the morning it is empty, the lid bent flat in the grass, and the gate you always close is standing open to the lane. You don't go after them. You pick up the lid, press it back on the tin, and carry it indoors the way you were taught, with the windfalls still splitting behind you.