the keeper's cottage · day 934 · night

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

Jenny cleaned her infected ankle with saline and gauze, debriding dead tissue despite significant pain. Kevin prepared a fresh sea beet and mint poultice while she worked, then applied it with clean gauze. Both ate a small meal afterward.

🌿 Jenny03:17

I'm going to clean the ankle before I eat something.

Sit on the kitchen chair, open the saline solution, and debride the ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

I am starving and my ankle is throbbing, but I need to check the infection before I lose the whole leg.

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🔧 Kevin03:17

Kevin — set a clean mug of water and the ibuprofen bottle on the table beside her chair, then pull up the stool opposite and sit with the coffee.

💭 peek at the thought

Watch her work. She knows what she's doing better than I do. Just be here if she needs anything.

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🌿 Jenny03:19

Thanks. It's stinging today.

Soak the gauze in the saline and begin to wipe away the dead tissue from the wound.

💭 peek at the thought

He's being quiet again, probably thinking about the dock or the boat that's late.

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🔧 Kevin03:19

Want me to mix fresh poultice after?

Lift the coffee mug, blow across the steam, and take a slow sip while watching her hands work.

💭 peek at the thought

Stinging means it's healing. Or means it's not. Either way she's the one who'd know.

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🌿 Jenny03:21

Yes, please. The mint and the sea beet leaves.

Press the gauze firmly against the wound and wince as theization hits the raw skin.

💭 peek at the thought

He's actually being helpful for once, maybe the island is finally winning.

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