the keeper's cottage · day 354 · night

Evening Quietude

Kevin and Jenny are together in the small kitchen as the lantern flickers. The sound of the rain is the only constant.

Kevin checked the cottage lashings and generator oil while Jenny sketched sea beet morphology and tended her ankle. The barometer continued falling to 1003 hPa as cloud cover thickened overhead. A fish run moved through the shallows off the dock in the high tide.

🔧 Kevin12:08

Water's to the brim. Tank's sealed.

wipe hands on a rag and move to the porch door to check the lashings

💭 peek at the thought

The tank's full for the first time in months. One less thing to watch.

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🌿 Jenny12:09

Good. Don't let the wind catch the door.

Jenny winces as she shifts her weight, reaching for her pencil to shade the salt own.

💭 peek at the thought

Three hundred ninety-seven litres. My ankle feels like it's being squeezed by a pliers, but the vinegar helps.

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🔧 Kevin12:10

Door's braced. Two-by-four and the tool bag. Not going anywhere.

step onto the porch and check the generator lashings by flashlight

💭 peek at the thought

She's pushing through the pain again. Should've had her stay off it entirely today.

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🌿 Jenny12:11

Make sure the radio stays dry.

Jenny presses the pencil hard against the paper, sketching the crystalline structure of a salt gland to ignore the throb.

💭 peek at the thought

He's focused on the hardware, I'm focused on the purple heat under my skin. If the boat comes and I can't stand, the survey is over.

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🔧 Kevin12:13

Coax is taped and the new insulator's holding. Aerial's sound.

pull the porch door shut behind me and sweep the flashlight over the generator, ratchet straps, and radio mast base

💭 peek at the thought

Radio's the only link out. If the coax fails again we're blind.

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🌿 Jenny12:13

Check the generator oil one last time.

Jenny pulls her notebook close and winces as she adjusts the swollen ankle, testing the vinegar soak.

💭 peek at the thought

The radio is up, but my leg is getting heavy. I need to finish this sketch before the fever hits or the seeds will just rot.

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