"It's a Celtic knot with objects interwoven in the links." Ronan's never sure if the tattoo actually changes because it too is a dream thing or if Gansey was just talking bullshit when he said he saw new things in it every time he saw it. "I saw the design in a dream once."

That's about as close as he's willing to get to the truth of it: he pulled the design from his dreams, an intricate and complicated thing that two tattoo artists refused to touch before he found one willing to put the design on his back.