the keeper's cottage · day 896 · morning

The Approaching Swell

The rain continues to pour as the tide rises higher against the dock, the air inside the cottage heavy.

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

🌿 Jenny12:49

The tank's filling too fast today.

walk out to the porch and check the water level on the tank.

💭 peek at the thought

If the rain doesn't stop, I won't even be able to get to the sea own, let alone sketch it.

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🔧 Kevin12:50

Diversion trench holding?

walk to the porch and lean past her to check the tank gauge, then step out onto the wet boards to eye the northeast corner where the trench meets the foundation

💭 peek at the thought

She's right — the overflow's been running steady since midnight. At this rate we'll hit the foundation sill by noon. Need to check the diversion trench I dug at the northeast corner.

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🌿 Jenny12:50

It's holding. For now.

lean against the doorframe and watch him, shifting my weight off the swollen ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

He only cares about the lines and the leaks. He doesn't see the way the soil is actually shifting.

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🔧 Kevin12:52

Good. Let it run.

step back inside, pull the kettle off the stove and set a mug on the table, then reach for the doxycycline blister pack on the shelf above the radio

💭 peek at the thought

She's favouring the left leg hard. The doxycycline's had twelve hours — should be taking the edge off the cellulitis if it's the right bug. But the heat I felt last night when I changed the dressing says maybe it's not.

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🌿 Jenny12:52

Thanks.

slide into the chair at the table and hold out my hand for the pill.

💭 peek at the thought

He's playing nurse again. I can handle my own medication, but I'm too tired to fight him for the blister pack.

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🔧 Kevin12:54

Take it with the broth. Empty stomach'll turn on you.

push the mug across the table, drop one white tablet into her palm, then turn to the radio and flip the power switch — static hisses, weak in the rain

💭 peek at the thought

Two tablets left in this pack. Fourteen days prescribed, she's taken twelve. The metronidazole finished yesterday. If the swelling hasn't dropped by morning, we're into the buried cache — and that's the last of it.

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