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the keeper's cottage · day 764 · evening

Evening Meal at the Cottage

The rain finally tapers off as the light fades. You and Jenny gather inside the cottage to prepare a meal and discuss the supply boat's arrival in ten days.

Kevin failed to true the Yanmar's mast bracket alignment due to a stripped bolt hole, then salvaged the fallen spruce trunk into firewood. Jenny successfully surveyed the northern tide pools at low tide, finding stable pH levels, and debrided her ankle wound, noting reduced infection spread.

🌿 Jenny04:11

Ten days. If they're late again, we're in real trouble.

Lean back in the kitchen chair, elevating my ankle on a low crate to ease the swelling.

💭 peek at the thought
My ankle is throbbing in time with the rain; I hope the boat actually has the antibiotics this time.

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🔧 Kevin04:12

Fuel's good. Water's full. Radio works. We're not in trouble yet.

Set two tin mugs on the table, fill them from the kettle on the stove, push one toward her.

💭 peek at the thought
Ten days. If the weather holds. If the engine doesn't throw a rod. If the barometer doesn't drop. She's right and she knows I know it.

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🌿 Jenny04:13

Good is a relative term when I'm running out of the right gauze and I can't even walk to the tide pools without limping.

Take the mug, wrapping both hands around the warmth, and watch the steam rise in the humid air.

💭 peek at the thought
He's always so practical until the fever starts to climb up my leg.

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🔧 Kevin04:14

Supply boat carries medical. Fresh gauze, antibiotic cream, more doxy if they remembered the list.

Sit opposite her, blow across my mug, watch the barometer needle on the shelf.

💭 peek at the thought
She's not wrong. The gauze is gone. The ankle's not healing fast enough. I should've built the irrigation trench deeper last month.

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🌿 Jenny04:15

They better have. I can't go another week on just sea beet leaves and hope.

Take a slow sip of the tea, my eyes drifting to the half-weeded garden visible through the window.

💭 peek at the thought
I hope he emphasized the list; this infection is getting deeper than the last poultice.

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