Black line drawing of a winged fairy with flowing hair and swirling wing lines, shown as a tattoo design on white.

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Winged fairy line drawing

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A stylised female fairy stands with arms raised and long hair streaming behind her. Her wings and hair are built from flowing, swirling black lines of varying weight, with no shading. The design is drawn in black on a plain white background, centred in the frame.

Fine line Fairy Wing Woman Swirl Figure

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

They held the reunion in the old infants' hall, the one with the sprung floor and the jar of pennies nobody had emptied since 1978. Half the class had come back from wherever they'd gone. Marion Pask had not been asked, because nobody had her address, but she came anyway, up the lane in a green coat with the hem torn, and stood by the urn until someone said her name.

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Dora Lillie remembered her as the girl who went into Hollin Wood at dinner time and came out with burrs in her hair and a length of silver thread wound round one wrist. The thread never came off. Teachers tried. Her mother tried with the nail scissors. It kept growing into the pattern you see on the hall window in the dust, lines rising off the shoulders like the curl of young bracken.

She did not dance. She stood by the coat rack and let the draught from the door lift her hair into loops, and when Dora asked what the fairies had wanted from her, she said plainly, "They wanted what we left behind. Your ribbon. Your lost shoe. Your first tooth in a matchbox. They keep the lost things so the children can come back for them."

Then she unwound the thread from her wrist, slowly, and gave a loop of it to each of them. Dora felt it cold as well water against her palm. She looked down and saw a small brass key she had lost in the wood the summer she was nine, hanging on the silver as if it had always been there.