Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the tide pools

Midday at the cottage

Kevin and Jenny return to the keeper's cottage for the midday meal, both with unfinished morning work.

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

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You stand at the dock rail, looking down at the dinghy riding higher on the rising tide. The transom crack is submerged, the seacocks out of reach. You'll need low water or a way to haul her.

🔧 Kevin09:28

Kevin — walk back to the cottage

💭 peek at the thought

Tide's coming in fast. Transom's under six inches of water and rising. Seacocks are a write-off until low water — twelve hours at least. Could haul the dinghy up the beach on rollers, but that's a two-person job with the engine off. Or wait. Weather window's holding for now.

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🔧 Kevin09:32

Kevin — walk up to the cottage

💭 peek at the thought

Coffee's cold. Tide's still pushing. Nothing to do at the dock until the water drops. Might as well check the generator oil while I'm up here — been running steady since the diaphragm change, but the hour meter's creeping up on two-fifty since last change.

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🔧 Kevin09:36

Kevin — check the water tank and firewood stack

💭 peek at the thought

Generator's purring. Oil's clean, level's good. Radio's quiet — just static and the occasional French trawler working the banks. Barometer's still climbing. Three days to the supply boat if they keep their word. Should check the water tank level and the firewood stack while I'm moving.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the tide pools

You climb the path from the tide pools, basket heavy with limpets, ankle pulsing. The tide took the pools before you could finish the sea beet sketches. The notebook is damp at the edges.

🌿 Jenny09:28

Not yet, just one more step.

wipe salt spray from the notebook cover and head toward the cottage.

💭 peek at the thought

If the tide comes in faster, I'll lose the eastern shelf entirely. I'm starving and this leg is screaming.

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🌿 Jenny09:31

Jenny — set the basket of limpets on the kitchen counter and begin rinsing them in the sink.

💭 peek at the thought

I can't focus on the Yanmar if I'm shaking from hunger. The limpets need to be cleaned properly or they'll taste like grit and old brine.

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🌿 Jenny09:35

Jenny — pull back the fabric of my trousers to inspect the skin around the bandage.

💭 peek at the thought

The red streaks are moving higher. I need to check the ankle again, but I don't want to see Kevin's face.

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