Two small black fine line tattoos on the side of a pair of pressed-together hands, one a crossed line with loops and the other a vertical bar with a circle.

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Two minimalist line tattoos on the hands

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two palms are pressed together, with a small black tattoo on the side of each hand near the base of the fingers. The left tattoo shows two crossing lines with three small looped circles, and the right shows a vertical bar, a circle and horizontal strokes. Both are drawn in thin, even black linework on a plain, blurred dark background.

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Dear Tobiah, the lashing held through the spring tide, though Mother says it was luck and not my knots. The ferry is tied to the east quay again, and the men have stopped complaining about the rope since I re-served the chafe in the eyes with waxed twine. I have kept your half of the mark the way we agreed, the three loops on the hawser where the ferry-master can see them, and my block beside them for the pulley that lifts the gate.

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The palace clerks came down from Veyne on Thursday asking after the old charter of Ashmere. They wanted to know who had laid the first bridge over the Sallow, and I told them it was whoever could tie a sheepshank that would not slip under weight. They laughed. Then the youngest one, a boy with ink up to his wrist, asked me to show him the knot, and I did, three turns and a sharp pull, and he went white and said his grandfather had drowned on a line just like it.

I am writing because the gate-block cracked in the night. Father would have said it was the cold. I think the water wants the old marks back, so I have cut both on the lintel of the boathouse, your loops and my bar, and the river has not come over the step since.

Come home when the ferry runs again. Bring the spare marlinspike. Your sister, Ilse.

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