meteordust | Technically also a Noman tattoo

Last year in Fallen London, I was able to keep my Noman alive until the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, when it was possible for my character to get a tattoo of the Noman to remember it by.

So having done that, this year I took a different option at the tattoo parlour: watching an unusual visitor get a tattoo instead.

A skin-bound memory

"Are you sure?" Millicent asks. "If I were you, I'd be finding better ways to spend my time."

The visitor sits. Its face is marred by asymmetry; one cheekbone has slumped lower than the other. "I'm starting to forget things. What good is time if I can't remember it?"

Millicent sniffs; winces at the ammonia-smell. "All right. What do you want?"

"All of it. The sorrowful sea. The pebbled beach. The reflection I saw in the Carnival mirrors: myself, older. The boy who gave me a bouquet of mushrooms..."

Millicent scrabbles for her tools. "Slow down, slow down." She brushes an assaying thumb across her client's skin, and it comes away glistening with a milky residue. "I don't know how well the ink will take."

The visitor grabs her wrist in slippery fingers. "Try."

It's very "tears in the rain".