Sepia pencil drawing of a winged angel with a sword standing over a crouched demon, a design suited to a large back or chest piece.

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Winged angel standing over a fallen demon

Realism · Black and grey · Flash

A detailed pencil drawing of a muscular angel with large feathered wings standing over a crouched horned demon that has bat-like wings spread beneath. The angel grips a sword, and the figures show fine shading and defined musculature, with individual feather texture on the wings. The drawing is sepia toned on an aged, parchment-style background, with a centred, symmetrical composition.

Realism Angel Demon Wing Sword Feather Horn

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sexton had promised the bride a dry afternoon, and at half past one he was still standing under the lych gate with his hands in his coat pockets, watching the rain roll off the Malvern hills like a sheet being shaken out. Inside the vestry, Nell Haskett was picking through the drawer where the parish kept its odds and ends, looking for a pin to hold her veil before the bells started.

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Instead she found the drawing. It had been folded in quarters so many times the creases had gone soft as cloth. An angel stood with one foot planted on the chest of a crouched demon, its horns curling back, and its wings rose so high they ran off the top of the page. Beneath the demon, a second pair spread out like a bat's, veined and torn at the edges. The whole thing had faded to the colour of weak tea. On the back, in her grandfather's cramped capitals, someone had written: HE IS STILL HOLDING ON TO THE SWORD.

Her grandfather had hung that drawing above the tea urn for thirty years and never once explained it. Nell had asked him at her own christening lunch, and he had only said that falling was not the same as finished. She tried to remember whether he'd said it kindly. Outside, the bells began, and her cousin Ed came in shaking water from his hair, saying the vicar wanted her in the porch in five minutes and the rain had stopped as if someone had turned off a tap.

She slid the drawing into the back of her bouquet, between the stems of wild cow parsley, so the angel faced out along the aisle. Then she walked into the light, the grey hills turning gold behind the yews, and she did not look back at the vestry door, because her grandfather had always said the sword was the part worth keeping, and she meant to keep it.