the keeper's cottage · day 745 · night

Night of the storm

The wind howls through the eaves as the rain turns to a gale. You and Jenny huddle together in the kitchen while the lantern flickers.

The rain has transitioned from a lpour to a heavy driving assault, drumming against the cottage roof with a rhythmic intensity. Inside, the air is thick with the scent of damp earth and the medicinal tang of the sea beet poultice. The tide is rising steadily, lapping at the lower stones of the south dock.

🌿 Jenny03:45

The pressure is dropping too fast, Jenny.

Place a pot under the drip in the corner.

💭 peek at the thought

The roof is going to give before the boat does, and I'm tired of catching leaks.

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🔧 Kevin03:45

Roof first. Radio second. You take the porch shutters — I'll batten the west ridge.

grab the hammer and remaining roofing nails from the shelf, move to the porch door, unhook the spare tarp roll from the wall bracket

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. Barometer's fallen twenty millibars since noon. This isn't a front — it's a bomb low. If the roof goes, the radio goes. If the radio goes, we're blind.

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🌿 Jenny03:47

Watch the bolts on the left side, the wood is soft there.

Wrap the seed tin in a dry cloth and keep it by the stove.

💭 peek at the thought

If those shutters go, the whole kitchen is ruined before the seeds even get wet.

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🔧 Kevin03:47

Got it. Longer screws into the sound timber behind.

step out onto the porch into the driving rain, headlamp beam cutting white cones through the dark, move to the left shutter where the wind screams through the gap

💭 peek at the thought

She's seen the rot I missed. Good eye. The left porch beam — salt's eaten it hollow. If that shutter tears loose in this wind it takes the roof edge with it.

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