the keeper's cottage · day 326 · night

A Heavy Lull

The humidity remains at its peak as the sun sets, leaving the island in a breathless, expectant silence.

Warm rain drums against the cottage roof as the night settles. Kevin and Jenny stay inside, listening to the steady downpour while the rising tide laps the dock pilings.

🌿 Jenny09:29

The soil is soft enough. I'm just doing one today.

Pick up the single poppy seed from the rusted tin and walk toward the south garden bed.

💭 peek at the thought

If I don't plant it now, I'll find another excuse tomorrow about the acidity or the rain.

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🔧 Kevin09:30

One’s enough for now. Let it take.

stand from the chair and walk to the rain tank, wipe the lid clean with my sleeve, then check the water level by sight—still full.

💭 peek at the thought

I watch her go, the way her shadow stretches long in the low light. That poppy seed—she’s planting it where the soil’s broken open, not in the neat rows. I wonder if she’s trying to grow something wild, or if she’s just marking a spot. I don’t ask. I never do.

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🌿 Jenny09:31

I need to see if the pH will actually hold it.

Poke a small hole in the cleared debris of the south bed with my finger, drop the seed in, and press the earth down over it.

💭 peek at the thought

He's right, one is a start, even if the island swallows it whole.

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🔧 Kevin09:32

(quiet, not looking up) If it grows, we’ll know. If it doesn’t, we’ll try again.

walk to the porch, pick up the water test kit from the shelf, shake out one strip, and hold it in my palm—waiting for her to bring me a spoonful of soil from that spot.

💭 peek at the thought

She’s testing more than soil—she’s testing if anything can still take hold here. I remember the pH strip from earlier, the one she used. Untreated ground’s too acidic. But she didn’t wait for the strip. She just did it.

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