Realistic wolf head tattoo with shaded grey and brown fur across a person's upper back, with their head turned away from the camera.

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Wolf head on upper back

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A person with blonde hair lies face down on a white bed with their bare back toward the camera, and their face is not visible. The centre of the back carries a large wolf head tattoo facing forward, with detailed shading in greys and browns that gives the fur texture and amber tones to the eyes. The red pillow and white bedding behind the figure sit in soft focus and frame the tattoo.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hush now, Tom, I'm getting to the wolf. The snow had shut the Carrick road by the second week of January, the ewes were heavy with lamb, and every night the collies went wild at the top field gate. Nobody saw anything but tracks. Big ones, with the claw marks stamped clear, going round and round the stone dyke like a man counting fence posts.

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Agnes Mackie was not a woman who frightened easily, and she was not going to start for a dog's worth of nonsense. So on the ninth night she took the storm lantern, pulled her good coat over her nightdress and walked out to the byre with her breath hanging in front of her like a second ghost.

The lamp showed her the straw, the rafters, the steaming backs of the sheep. It showed her the wolf too, lying across the feed trough as though it had paid for the place. Its coat was the colour of wet slate and dust, and its eyes caught the light and held it, amber as the whisky in her husband's flask. It did not snarl. It simply looked at her, the way the minister looks at a hymn he has heard a thousand times and still thinks could be sung better. Agnes set the lantern on a bale, poured the skim milk from the pail into the far end of the trough, and said, "Well, you're no use to me starving." The wolf rose, stepped past her without touching her skirts, and went out into the white.

In the morning there was a lamb standing by the top gate, bleating like a rusty hinge, with a single grey hair caught in its fleece. Agnes never told the men about the milk. Every winter after, the lantern burned in the byre window until the thaw, and the tracks went round the dyke but never through it. So go to bed now, and mind the gate on your way past, because those prints are still out there, counting.