the keeper's cottage · day 908 · night

Evening radio contact and medevac confirmation

Kevin sits at the shortwave with the trust's frequency tuned, hand on the mic. Jenny leans against the porch frame, drift cane across her knees, the sea beet sketchbook closed beside her. The generator hums steady in the shed. The supply boat is due in six days at high tide.

The humidity remains heavy and oppressive as the couple settles for the night at the cottage. Jenny rests her swollen ankle, the pain throbbing in the dry season heat, while Kevin checks the supplies ahead of the supply boat's arrival.

🔧 Kevin08:15

Trust, this is Sorrel Island, Kevin. Over.

key the mic and wait for response

💭 peek at the thought

Six days. The generator's steady. The barometer's holding. Need to make this call clean — trust, medevac confirmation, ETA locked in. Then the real work starts: getting the cottage and dock ready for whatever they're bringing.

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🌿 Jenny08:16

Jenny — lean back against the stone wall and slowly rub the skin just above the ankle wrap.

💭 peek at the thought

He's checking in early. Six days is a long time to wait for a voice, but the static is probably all he'll get in this humidity.

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🔧 Kevin08:16

(quiet, not keying the mic) You want coffee before this goes long?

reach for the kettle on the stove without looking away from the radio

💭 peek at the thought

She's still in pain. The rub tells me more than she'll say. Six days and a supply boat — if the medevac paperwork's cleared, she could be off this rock before the next swell. But the ankle's deep. Bone-deep, they said.

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🌿 Jenny08:18

Please. Black.

Shift the drift cane to one side and carefully lower my leg from the cushion.

💭 peek at the thought

I can't even stand up without my leg pulsing, but the smell of coffee might actually wake me up.

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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.