the keeper's cottage · day 786 · morning

Dawn - The Storm Breaks

The rain has lashed the roof through the night, and the tide has receded. The air is cold, and the barometer continues its descent.

Kevin examined Jenny's ankle and confirmed the infection has spread past the marked boundary. Jenny began soil pH testing on the northern slope while Kevin prepared gear for the low-tide rock haul.

🔧 Kevin07:03

Morning. Ankle feel any different?

Walk to the bedroom doorway to check on Jenny, then pull on oilskins and boots.

💭 peek at the thought

Dawn's thin light through the rain. Barometer still dropping — 990s now. Tide's out, which means the crate on the south beach is exposed. North piling repair window at 1240 low tide. Need to check Jenny's ankle first, then move on the crate before the swell picks up.

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🌿 Jenny07:05

It's heavy. Still.

Jenny pulls the blanket tighter over her leg and winces as she shifts her weight.

💭 peek at the thought

It throbbed in time with the rain, and the salt is still stinging in the skin.

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🔧 Kevin07:05

Let me look.

Crouch beside the bed, peel back the gauze carefully, compare the red line to the pen mark on her skin.

💭 peek at the thought

Heavy means swelling hasn't dropped overnight. Red line was tracking up yesterday. Need to check if it's advanced past the pen mark. Antibiotics are in her but infection's had twelve hours.

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🌿 Jenny07:07

Don't touch it. It's tight.

Jenny turns her face toward the window, watching the rain run off the half-weeded garden path.

💭 peek at the thought

He's looking at the swelling like it's a problem he can fix.

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🔧 Kevin07:07

I'm not touching. Just looking.

Lean in close without contacting the ankle, tilt the LED headlamp beam across the calf to trace the marked boundary.

💭 peek at the thought

Tight means pressure building under the skin. Could be abscess forming. She's protecting it — won't let me near. Need to see past the pen mark regardless. If the line's moved, we're past poultice stage.

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🌿 Jenny07:09

It's worse than yesterday.

Jenny stays perfectly still, her fingers digging into the edge of the quilt.

💭 peek at the thought

The red is moving. I can feel the heat radiating off the skin.

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🔧 Kevin07:09

How far past the mark? Talk to me straight.

💭 peek at the thought

Worse. Line's advanced. She knows it. I know it. The doxycycline and metronidazole should've knocked it back by now if it was just cellulitis. Abscess means drainage. She won't let me near it with a blade unless there's no choice. Rain's steady. Barometer still falling. Two problems moving at once.

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🌿 Jenny07:11

An inch. Maybe two.

Jenny looks down at her leg, then back at him, her jaw set.

💭 peek at the thought

It's reached the knee now. The skin feels far too small.

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