Black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm, showing a winged warrior with a sword above demonic figures, set against a dark cloudy sky.

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Winged warrior and clouds full sleeve

Realism · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A winged figure holding a sword stands above a group of demonic creatures in the lower part of the sleeve. Dark clouds fill the upper half, with soft shading and fine detail in the feathers, armour and figures. The piece is entirely black and grey, with the figure's highlights and the cloud edges creating depth across the arm.

Realism Upper arm Shoulder Angel Wing Sword Demon Cloud Sleeve Warrior

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cloud came down over Coldmarket on the third night of November and sat on the chimney pots like a hen on eggs. Nobody could see the moon. Agnes Harrow, who baked for the whole of Pell Street before the carters were up, said the dough rose wrong that week, sulking under its cloth as if it had heard something moving beneath the floor.

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On the fourth night the things came up through the grating outside the chapel. They were the shape of men until you looked at their hands, and they grinned like dogs that had learned to ask for bread. They crept along the gutters towards the lit windows, and the watchman's dog would not go past the corner of Bell Lane. Agnes stood in her doorway with the peel in her fist and did not step out, because her mother had always said that a door opened at night is a door that wants opening again.

Then there was a sound like a sail filling, and a man came down through the cloud with his wings folded at his back like a coat he had not bothered to button. He carried a sword as long as a bread board and said nothing at all. He walked straight into the gutter and began. Agnes watched from the step as he drove the creatures back down the grating one by one, the blade ringing on the iron as if the whole street were a bell. When the last of them slid under, the cloud tore open, and there was the moon again, a small cold coin.

The stranger was gone by morning. On the flour bin lay a single grey feather, and every loaf Agnes baked after that came out with a faint dark mark on its crust, like a thumbprint of soot. She never sold those loaves. She ate them herself, one a day, and told nobody why.