the keeper's cottage · day 333 · midday

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🔧 Kevin15:47

Kevin — walk onto the porch and check the barometer, then scan the horizon for any sign of the boat

💭 peek at the thought

Back where I started. The letter for Tom sits on the table, the Yanmar's still humming in my fingers from the test run, and the dock ring's held through two tide cycles now. Supply boat's due tomorrow. Everything I can control is done.

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🌿 Jenny15:47

It's too quiet out here.

sit on the porch steps, pick up the sketchbook, and begin drawing the precise morphology of the sea beet leaves near the wall.

💭 peek at the thought

The pressure is holding, but my stomach is not. If that boat doesn't show up tomorrow, I'm going to lose my mind.

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🔧 Kevin15:49

Barometer's still rising. 1034 now. Usually means the weather holds, but...

lean against the doorframe, arms crossed, watching her sketch

💭 peek at the thought

She's not wrong. The wind's died to a whisper, the sea's glass-flat, even the gulls have buggered off. Only sound is the tank creaking as it settles. Makes the hair on my arms lift.

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🌿 Jenny15:49

The weather is fine, Kevin. I just need to finish this study without being watched.

don't look up from the page, use a thumb to steady the paper and continue shading the venation of the leaves with a sharp pencil.

💭 peek at the thought

He's always looking for the catch, as if the island isn't already trying to swallow us whole with salt and wind.

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