the keeper's cottage · day 824 · night

Evening at

The sun finally dips below the horizon, casting long shadows across the garden as the tide begins its slow turn.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🔧 Kevin11:12

Kevin — walk down to the dock with the wheelbarrow — greenheart plates, 150mm through-bolt, torque wrench, 19mm socket. Set up at the north piling mortise. Wait for the water to drop enough.

💭 peek at the thought

The heat's finally breaking. Low tide in an hour, maybe two. North piling mortise is still sitting with that broken tap and drill bit locked in epoxy. Greenheart sisters staged, bolts ready. Need to drill it clean and re-tap oversize before the water comes back up.

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🌿 Jenny11:13

Jenny — reach for the ibuprofen bottle on the kitchen table, wincing as the weight shifts on my ankle, swallow two pills with lukewarm water.

💭 peek at the thought

My head is a drum and my leg is a hot iron; if he doesn't get that tap out, the whole structure is going into the sea.

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🔧 Kevin11:14

You need to stay off it. The ridge walk tomorrow — I'll go alone. You log the GPS marks from the porch if the radio picks up the sat.

Keep walking to the dock, wheelbarrow rumbling over the path. Set it down at the north piling. Pull the cordless drill with the 12mm bit, the left-hand extractor set, penetrating oil.

💭 peek at the thought

She's hurting bad. Ankle's not right. She won't say it, but I can see it in how she moves. Ibuprofen won't touch what's happening in that joint. Should've pushed harder for the medevac forms when the boat had a window. Too late now — supply boat's three days out at best.

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🌿 Jenny11:15

I'll be on the radio.

Lean back against the whitewashed stone wall, watching his silhouette move in the waning light, my hand instinctively covering the swollen heat of my ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks he's doing me a favor, but he's just taking the only work I have left to do.

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🔧 Kevin11:16

Kevin — spray penetrating oil deep into the mortise hole, around the broken tap and drill bit shank. Let it soak. Check the water line — still dropping. Good. Organize the extractor set by size while it works.

💭 peek at the thought

She'll monitor. That's something. Radio gives her purpose while she's stuck. Me, I've got a broken tap to drill out before the tide turns. Epoxy's harder than the tap steel was. Left-hand bit snapped last time. This time I go slower. Penetrating oil first. Let it work.

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🌿 Jenny11:17

Jenny — pull my field notebook from the waterproof case, start sketching the crack extension in the north ridge soil pocket two — she's weeping faster now, the clay pulling away from the fracture line even in this fading light.

💭 peek at the thought

Twelve minutes if I'm lucky, maybe twenty if the salt has eaten through everything completely.

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