Pencil and teal colour sketch of a woman in profile with flowing hair, waves and a ship, drawn as a tattoo design with the words my love n the sea.

Woman in profile with waves and ship

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A pencil drawing shows a woman in profile with her eyes lowered, her long hair swirling into waves and a sailing ship at the top. Fine graphite linework is shaded with soft teal and green colour across the hair and water. Handwritten script reading my love n the sea runs along the bottom edge, and the composition is a tall vertical panel.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, the lamp is nearly out and I'll not waste the oil on a tale you've heard from your father. You want the one about Morwenna Trebilcock and the sea? Then mind your feet on the stairs, the adit floods every spring and the water comes up through the floor like it's looking for someone.

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Morwenna worked the bal at the cliff's edge, sorting ore on the dressing floors, and every evening she walked down to Porthgwidden to watch the boats go out. Her man, Jory, was a captain's son turned tinner, and the sea took him the winter the Lady Ann went onto the Gull Rock. They never found him. What the cove gave back was a carved wooden figurehead, a woman with her hair going to foam, and Morwenna dragged it home on a handcart and set it by the engine house where the wind could reach it.

The old men said it was bad luck to keep a thing the sea had given back. Morwenna only laughed and cut her own hair short with the ore shears, and she sang to the figurehead while she scraped the green weed from its cheek. One night in the dark month the figurehead's lips were wet. Nobody believes that part, but a ship was pinned to the cliff top in the morning, its sails grey lichen, and the tide had gone out and not come back for three days.

When the tide returned it brought Jory's cap, dry as a biscuit, and a line cut into the wood beneath the paint: my love n the sea. Morwenna took her shears to the figurehead's hair and let the waves go free. Now go on, the lamp's out, and the water's rising.

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