Realistic colour tattoo of a woman with an updo and several eyes across her face, placed on the calf.

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Woman portrait with multiple eyes on a calf

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A painted portrait of a woman with dark hair swept into an updo, her face framed by a soft grey wash. Several eyes are scattered across her forehead and cheeks, and her lips are rendered in a muted red. Smooth blended shading gives the face volume, while the warm pinks and grey background are set against the curve of the leg.

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Sit closer, you lot, the fire is only good for the front row. The Queen of Mirrowmere had grown tired of being watched by her own servants, so she sent for the glassblower's daughter from the Saltgate road. The girl came up the hill with her black hair pinned high, the way the mountain women wore it so the wind could not take it, and she carried nothing but a basket of pale grey ash. She said the ash would keep the eyes shut. The chamberlain laughed until he saw her face, and then he stopped laughing.

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Here is the part the old ones leave out. Every eye she opened was one the palace had lost. A clerk who had signed a false tax. A cook who had poisoned a dog and blamed the bread. A guard who had looked away from a crying child. The girl pressed each one into her skin with a bead of red wax, and they settled there, blinking, and they did not leave. By midwinter she had eyes on her brow, her cheeks, her chin, and still they came, because the kingdom was full of people looking away.

The queen climbed to the glassblower's hut in the last hour before the thaw and asked what the girl wanted for her trouble. The girl only touched her own lips, pressed closed and painted the colour of a winter rose, and said, "Hush, and let them see you." The queen did not sleep that night. In the morning the palace gates stood open, and every eye in the city had turned back toward the castle, waiting for her to explain herself.

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