Apart — Kevin at the keeper's cottage, Jenny at the north cliffs

Radio contact and cliff transect

Kevin is at the cottage calling Tom on the shortwave at 0800; Jenny is at the north cliffs checking the Carex transect reference cairns.

Kevin made a shortwave call to Tom and scanned the horizon for the supply boat. Jenny failed to de‑salt her sea‑beet sketches and simply carried the notebook up the cliffs.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the keeper's cottage

You sit at the radio desk, handset in hand, the set warmed up. The aerial insulator you installed last week holds. You call Tom's callsign on his frequency, wait for the squelch to break.

🔧 Kevin18:25

Tom. This is Kevin. Sorrel Island. 0800. Over.

key the mic on Tom's frequency, wait for response

💭 peek at the thought

Three years of silence. Five words to break it. My thumb hovers on the PTT.

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🔧 Kevin18:28

Kevin — set handset back in cradle, log the call in the radio notebook with time and frequency, walk to the porch and scan the horizon for the supply boat

💭 peek at the thought

Static. Just static. He's not there, or he's not answering. Either way the silence stretches.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the north cliffs

You follow the north ridge path to the first cairn, notebook in hand. The wind is freshening from the southwest, pushing cloud ahead of it. The three stone markers are still standing.

🌿 Jenny18:27

Jenny — kneel by the

💭 peek at the thought

The pressure is dropping too fast; I need to get these sketches inside before the rain ruins the paper.

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🌿 Jenny18:31

Jenny — tuck the notebook under my jacket and stand up.

💭 peek at the thought

The wind is starting to bite, and my ankle is throbbing with the change in pressure.

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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.