the keeper's cottage · day 787 · evening

The Storm Breaches

Inside the cottage, the wind howls through the cracks in the shutters. The radio is silent, and the supply boat is still seven days away in the swells.

The rain continues in a steady, rhythmic drumming against the cottage roof, turning the island into a blurred green landscape. Inside, the air is heavy with the scent of damp earth and woodsmoke. The barometer continues its slow descent toward 992 hPa, signaling a deepening low, while the tide rises steadily against the dock, lapping at the pilings with increasing urgency.

🔧 Kevin08:24

Radio's dead quiet. No Cape Radio on schedule. You hearing anything on the handheld?

check the shortwave aerial connection at the wall penetration and tune through 2182, 4125, 6215 for any traffic

💭 peek at the thought

Storm's building faster than the barometer said. Radio silence is wrong — should hear Cape Radio's scheduled broadcast. Seven days is a long wait if the boat can't cross the bar.

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🌿 Jenny08:25

Just static and the wind. The antenna is probably swaying in the gust.

Jenny leans against the kitchen counter, rubbing her throbbing ankle, while she adjusts the dial on the radio with a shaky hand.

💭 peek at the thought

The static is just the rain hitting the antenna. If the boat doesn't come, I'm out of antibiotics in three days.

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🔧 Kevin08:26

Hand me the headlamp. I'll check the lead-in at the mast base while you sit.

grab the LED headlamp from the shelf, pull on oilskins, and step out onto the porch to inspect the coaxial run where it meets the mast base insulator

💭 peek at the thought

She's favouring the ankle bad. Antibiotics should've knocked the edge off by now. Aerial's self-amalgamating tape held last storm but this wind's got teeth.

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🌿 Jenny08:27

Be careful, the porch is slick with algae and the rain is coming sideways.

Jenny sits at the kitchen table, pulling out her notebook and beginning to sketch the morphology of the sea much leaves she gathered earlier to keep her mind off the pain in her leg.

💭 peek at the thought

The wind is going to rip that cable right off the bracket if he doesn't secure the tensioners.

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