the dock · day 799 · morning

Dawn at the dock

The high tide remains steady for now, but the overcast continues to thicken. The supply boat is still five days away.

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🌿 Jenny01:32

Jenny — walk toward the cottage, rubbing the throbbing in my ankle.

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If the rain starts before the boat, the northern shelf will be a swamp and the pH test will be useless.

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🔧 Kevin01:33

Jenny, how's the pain?

walk toward the cottage and check her ankle carefully

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The ankle's still throbbing despite the poultice, and I can see the fever's shadowing her eyes again. Five days isn't enough time if the infection takes hold - the antibiotics are almost gone and the supply boat's radio silence means no fresh medical supplies.

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🌿 Jenny01:35

It's fine, Kevin. Just tired.

pull my leg away slightly and move toward the kitchen table.

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He's always hovering like I'm some fragile piece of equipment.

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🔧 Kevin01:35

Sit down. Let me look.

follow her to the kitchen table and kneel to examine her ankle properly

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She's pulling away like she always does — fine means it's not fine, tired means she's scared. The red line was tracking toward her calf yesterday. If the doxycycline and metronidazole aren't holding, we've got maybe two days before it goes systemic. No medevac coming in this weather. I need to check that wound myself, not take her word for it.

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🌿 Jenny01:37

I have things to do on the northern shelf.

sit heavily in the chair and

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I don't need a doctor, I need a breakfast and a nap.

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🔧 Kevin01:37

You're not walking the northern shelf on that ankle. Not today.

peel back the gauze edge to see the wound underneath

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Northern shelf. She's mapping the Carex transect again. The ankle's swollen past the brace line, skin shiny tight. She sits heavy because standing hurts, not because she's tired. The northern shelf is a two-hour round trip over wet rock with a forty-pound pack. She'll never make it back before dark, not on that leg.

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