Fine line black outline tattoo of two four-pointed stars on the inner forearm near the wrist, beside a photo of a night sky.

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Two small outlined stars on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows two small four-pointed star outlines in thin black linework on the inner forearm near the wrist, with a denim sleeve visible at the bottom. The larger star sits above and to the right of the smaller one, and both are unshaded. On the right panel, a dark blue night sky holds a bright star and a smaller one, and a caption reads "second to the right..." with a sparkle emoji.

Fine line Forearm Star Sparkle Night sky Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The generator coughs twice before the lights come up over the dodgems, and by then you have already climbed onto the flat roof of the penny arcade with a tin of Auntie Vi's barley sugar and a pair of binoculars that smell of somebody else's pipe. The fair pulls out at six. Swindon on Wednesday, Bristol after that, and nobody has told the sky it is supposed to be leaving too.

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Eddie, who runs the Wheel, taught you the trick last summer behind the candyfloss van. The Pole Star is no use to a girl from Merthyr who has never seen the sea from a boat. What you need is the bright one first, the one that has already decided to be seen, then the smaller one that keeps it company just to the left and below. Never start with the faint one, Eddie said, flicking ash over the rail. Faint ones don't like being found.

Tonight the clouds have sorted out their own business over the Mumbles road, so you find the pair easily and lie there with your cheek on cold tar paper, counting the points. Four on each, sharp as the tines of Dilys's fork when she eats chips. Dilys is staying behind with her gran's tarot deck and a job selling tickets at the pier, and the caravan leaves before she is awake.

You tear a corner off the ticket stub in your pocket, take Eddie's pencil from behind your ear, and draw the bigger star first, then the smaller one beneath it and off to the left, the way he showed you. Then you tuck it under the Wheel's rusty rail, where she will find it on her first morning alone, and you climb down the ladder before the generator starts again.