Colour realism tattoo of a woman holding a glowing orb against a teal background, placed on the thigh.

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Woman with glowing orb on thigh

Realism · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A large tattoo on the outer thigh shows a dark-haired woman in a shoulder piece, seen from the waist up, holding a glowing orb close to her body. Smooth, detailed shading defines her face, arms and the sphere, with feather-like shapes rising behind her. Teal and turquoise wash fills the background, with warm red-brown tones on the skin and figure.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had buried the north road by four o'clock, and by six the only light in the valley was the one Mrs Tamsin Roe kept burning above the inn door. I was the last guest she expected. I came up the lane with my boots full and my hands raw, carrying a sack of glass floats I'd been paid to haul from the harbour, and she took one look at the sack and told me to put it down by the hearth before it froze to my back.

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The inn had one room that stayed warm, a kitchen with a bread oven, and a cellar where the wind came up through the flags. Tamsin's daughter Ilse sat in the corner most nights with a lantern of blue glass in her lap, turning it so the light rolled across the ceiling like water. She said it was the only thing her father had left behind when he walked out to fetch the doctor and never came back. I didn't ask whether he had found his way. Nobody in that valley asked things twice.

On the third night the glass in Ilse's lantern went dark. Tamsin swore, reached for the tinder, and Ilse stood up and held the lantern to the window instead, the way you'd show a sailor a shore. Out in the white, something answered: a faint green glimmer, then another, moving slow down the lane towards us.

Tamsin didn't move. Ilse set the lantern on the sill and said, quite calmly, "They're coming for the floats, not for us." I looked at the sack by the fire, at the cracked glass gleaming through its weave, and understood that I had carried something home that had been waiting for someone to bring it back.