the keeper's cottage · day 886 · night

Preparing for the Night

The two of you return to the cottage as the first drops of rain hit the dry dust.

Kevin shut the cottage door against rising wind and put the kettle on while Jenny recorded the falling barometer. He went to check the heirloom seed trays by lantern light and found a fallen spruce blocking the garden path. Jenny stayed inside with her swollen ankle, drinking broth and monitoring the seedlings from the porch.

🌿 Jenny04:05

Close the door, Kevin. The wind is picking up.

Sit on the kitchen chair and lift my swollen ankle onto the table.

💭 peek at the thought

My own is throbbing and the humidity is going to ruin the seed trays before I can even get the pH right.

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🔧 Kevin04:06

Door's shut. Kettle on?

close the cottage door against the rising wind, then move to the wood stove to check the kettle and add a stick of kindling

💭 peek at the thought

The rain smells different tonight — heavier, salt-laden. Barometer's drop is real. She's favouring the ankle bad.

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🌿 Jenny04:07

Yes, and I need to check the trays again before the roof leaks.

Reach for the notebook and a pencil to record the pressure drop.

💭 peek at the thought

If the boat doesn't come in eight days, I'll be out of clean gauze.

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🔧 Kevin04:08

Kettle first. Trays aren't going anywhere. Sit still.

fill the kettle from the tank tap and set it on the stove top, then pull out the second chair and sit opposite her, watching the ankle

💭 peek at the thought

She's pushing through the pain. Always does. The trays can wait five minutes while the water boils.

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🌿 Jenny04:09

Fine. But if I see more mold on those seedlings, I'm moving them.

Lean back and close my eyes, trying to ignore the pulse in my ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks he can fix everything just by giving orders, but the damp rot is already in the air.

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🔧 Kevin04:10

I'll check them. You drink the broth.

rise and move to the porch door, listening to the rain before stepping out to the garden beds

💭 peek at the thought

The pulse in her ankle matches the barometer's drop. Both rising. She won't sleep until the trays are checked.

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🌿 Jenny04:11

Don't stay out too long, the wind is turning.

Reach for the mug of broth and listen to the rain hitting the stone walls.

💭 peek at the thought

He's going to get soaked in that humidity; the ground is already slick.

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🔧 Kevin04:12

Won't.

step onto the porch and move along the garden path to the seed trays, crouching to lift the tarp edge and inspect the seedlings by the porch lantern light

💭 peek at the thought

Wind's backing southwest. She heard it too. The trays are under the spare tarp battened with timber strips — should hold unless a gust gets under the edge.

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