Traditional colour tattoo of a woman with blue eyes and a red veil that reveals a skull, held by a hand with long blue nails, on the thigh.

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Veiled woman with skull on thigh

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A woman with dark swept-back hair, a jewelled headband and blue eyes is shown with a red veil over her lower face, revealing a skull beneath. Her hand holds the veil, with long blue nails, and the veil ends in orange trim and dotted teardrop fringes. Bold black outlines and solid red, yellow, teal and blue fills give the piece a classic flash look, shown centred on the upper leg.

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You spot the red shawl before you spot her, a splash of colour across the function room at the Dunmore Arms, where the buffet has been picked over and someone's cousin is doing the Macarena by the bar. Thirty years since the Year Eleven leavers' do, and Ruth Okonedo is still the only person you have ever known to wear a shawl to a school disco, sequins ticking under the strip lights like a warning.

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You cross the carpet with a plastic cup of warm prosecco. Ruth has her back to you, telling Mr Pell, who taught you chemistry and now shakes like a leaf, that the fire alarm in the science block was never her fault. The shawl is pulled up to her nose, and one hand keeps it there, the way she used to hold it in the dinner queue when the lunch ladies asked what she was hiding. Nobody ever asked twice. You remember the rumours: a scar, a dare, a sister who bit someone in a Woolworths queue. You never checked any of them.

You tap her shoulder. She turns slowly, eyes bright over the red silk, and you brace for the old silence. Instead she lets the shawl drop to her collarbones and grins at you with an open-mouthed, yellow-toothed skeleton grin she has clearly been saving for this exact moment. You laugh so hard the prosecco slops onto your shoes, and Mr Pell, to everyone's surprise, laughs loudest of all.

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