Her sister's son had died as a child, and instead of locking him away into a grave, the family buried him in the backyard and kept his bones. They would let young relatives of the deceased boy play with the box of bones, making the boy's death a story, not to scare, but as a reminder of his presence. Blood and water are said to be magic elixirs of the flesh. They also have sacred connotations. There are ascetic, cooling aqua blues, contrasted to exotically feral pigments of red, a sense of fire and orient clashed in a dragon's tongue.
Blood is like the paint streaming silently inside, swelling upon waves rocked by aortic shudders.
The heart holds a flush shade of coral, a coloring akin to rose petals, branches of rosaries twined around the valves. Bodies may hold tattoos and scarification permanently, as in to the grave. Her mummified body was found frozen in ice, portions of her flesh and clothing still intact, so that she was a rare specimen to study. Having been frozen for reportedly 2400 years, the significance of her tribal symbols still held a powerfully visual presence. Her markings of blue tattoos were still visible, designs of mythical animals woven around her arms.