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Day 611

Day 611: The Tin and the Rising Fever

Dawn broke clear and cold at 26°C. The barometer read 1004 hPa and rising. Jenny sat on the porch steps with her ankle propped on a crate, watching clouds roll in. Kevin checked the red streaks on her leg while holding a notebook sketch of the scored Yanmar housing. At 0800 he transmitted on Channel 16: "Sorrel Island calling supply vessel. Medical emergency. Repeat: medical emergency. Female, 39, sepsis tracking from ankle infection. Red streaks to mid-thigh. Fever 39.1. Last antibiotics administered. Request immediate ETA. Over." Static answered. He repeated the call at 1200 and 1600. No response. Jenny marked the infection's progression to mid-thigh at 39.1°C. "Streaks past the knee. Mid-thigh," Kevin said. "Mark it high. I need to know exactly where the line is tomorrow." "39.1. Marked." Kevin sterilized the scalpel and applied a sea beet-mint poultice. Jenny lay on the porch cot, the old incision weeping. "The red streaking's moved past the knee. I need you to cut it open — drain the pus before it spreads deeper. Make it clean," she said. "Done. Drained clean. Packed it. Took the last full antibiotic dose." A pod of dolphins passed close off the point during afternoon watch. As pressure dropped, Kevin secured the dinghy warps against rising tide and strengthening wind. "Lines are holding. Stern spring singing. Bow line good. Storm anchor set. Ring's solid." They walked the ridge path at dusk, Kevin carrying the storm lantern. At the standing stones, salt-white in the low light, carved initials 'E' and 'LB' caught the last glow. A rusted tin marked 'E' sat among them. "Found that tin after the last big blow. North cliffs. Sealed tight but the sides are eaten through," Kevin said. "Lid's clean. Corrosion's below the seal line." Inside: heirloom tomato, pepper, and lettuce seeds, dry but with mold at the edges of two pepper packets. "Save the tomatoes. We have to go back." They carried the find to the cottage as the sky darkened. Rain hit the roof. Jenny's ankle remained angry, red streaks persisting despite the poultice and completed antibiotic course. Kevin prepared the cottage for the storm while the barometer continued its steady drop.

Dawn broke clear and cold at 26°C. The barometer read 1004 hPa and rising. Jenny sat on the porch steps with her ankle propped on a crate, watching clouds roll in. Kevin checked the red streaks on her leg while holding a notebook sketch of the scored Yanmar housing. At 0800 he transmitted on Channel 16: "Sorrel Island calling supply vessel. Medical emergency. Repeat: medical emergency. Female, 39, sepsis tracking from ankle infection. Red streaks to mid-thigh. Fever 39.1. Last antibiotics administered. Request immediate ETA. Over." Static answered. He repeated the call at 1200 and 1600. No response. Jenny marked the infection's progression to mid-thigh at 39.1°C. "Streaks past the knee. Mid-thigh," Kevin said. "Mark it high. I need to know exactly where the line is tomorrow." "39.1. Marked." Kevin sterilized the scalpel and applied a sea beet-mint poultice. Jenny lay on the porch cot, the old incision weeping. "The red streaking's moved past the knee. I need you to cut it open — drain the pus before it spreads deeper. Make it clean," she said. "Done. Drained clean. Packed it. Took the last full antibiotic dose." A pod of dolphins passed close off the point during afternoon watch. As pressure dropped, Kevin secured the dinghy warps against rising tide and strengthening wind. "Lines are holding. Stern spring singing. Bow line good. Storm anchor set. Ring's solid." They walked the ridge path at dusk, Kevin carrying the storm lantern. At the standing stones, salt-white in the low light, carved initials 'E' and 'LB' caught the last glow. A rusted tin marked 'E' sat among them. "Found that tin after the last big blow. North cliffs. Sealed tight but the sides are eaten through," Kevin said. "Lid's clean. Corrosion's below the seal line." Inside: heirloom tomato, pepper, and lettuce seeds, dry but with mold at the edges of two pepper packets. "Save the tomatoes. We have to go back." They carried the find to the cottage as the sky darkened. Rain hit the roof. Jenny's ankle remained angry, red streaks persisting despite the poultice and completed antibiotic course. Kevin prepared the cottage for the storm while the barometer continued its steady drop.

Scenes

the keeper's cottage · dawn

The Rising Fever

Jenny sits on the porch steps with her ankle propped on a crate, watching the clouds roll in. Kevin stands beside her, checking the red streaks on her leg while holding a notebook sketch of the scored Yanmar housing.

Kevin transmitted three emergency calls on Channel 16 at 0800, 1200, and 1600, logging each attempt with no response received. Jenny marked the infection's progression to mid-thigh at 39.1°C and documented the spread in her notebook. A pod of dolphins passed close off the point during the afternoon watch.

🔧 Kevin10:23

Streaks past the knee. Mid-thigh.

Press the back of my hand to her forehead, check for fever, then set the notebook down on the porch rail and pull out my pen to mark the new margin on her skin.

💭 thought
The streaks have darkened past the knee. Mid-thigh now. She's not flinching. She never flinches. The pump housing is scored — bore's eaten, whine won't stop. No parts coming. I need to machine a spacer for the Perkins flange from the prop nut stock, but the Yanmar's dead weight without a housing. Three hours on the lathe if the chuck holds. Supply boat due in three days. If the captain left yesterday, he's six hours out. If not... She mapped the margins herself this morning. Hands shaking. Didn't ask me to.
🌿 Jenny10:25

Mark it high. I need to know exactly where the line is tomorrow.

Draw a thin red circle above the edge of the infection and note the time and temperature in the notebook.

💭 thought
It's moving faster than the antibiotics. If it hits the way nodes, I won't make it to the supply boat trip.
🔧 Kevin10:25

39.1. Marked.

Cap the pen, set it beside the notebook, and sit down on the step beside her — close enough that our shoulders touch — and watch the clouds rolling in from the southwest.

💭 thought
She's calm. Calmer than me. Drawing her own death line with a ballpoint pen. 39.4 at 0200. 39.1 now. The antibiotic course is done. Last full dose was this morning. Nothing left but sea beet and mint and hope. The pump housing sits on the workbench — bore scored deep, whine persistent. I can machine a bronze spacer for the Perkins flange from the prop nut stock. Three hours. But the Yanmar needs a housing, not a spacer. No parts coming. Singapore agent stopped answering. She's mapping the spread like it's data. Like the sea beet transects. Like the Carex counts. Like if she documents it clean enough, it becomes something she can study instead of die from.
🌿 Jenny10:29

Don't just sit there. The wind is turning.

Lean back against the stone wall and close my eyes, trying to

💭 thought
The fever is climbing again. If it hits 40, I'm not going to be conscious.
🔧 Kevin10:29

Radio check first. Then secure the Yanmar below if there's time.

Stand up, walk to the cottage door, and pick up the shortwave handset — key Channel 16 and call for the supply boat.

💭 thought
Wind turning southwest. Barometer was 999 and falling at dawn, now 1004 and rising — that's not right for a storm coming in. Unless the low's moving fast. She feels it in the ankle. Bones know. I feel it in the chest. Water knows. The dinghy's moored with doubled lines and a storm anchor off the bow. Dock's held through worse. Cottage roof battened. Generator lashed. But the Yanmar's still on the dinghy, not secured below. Pump housing scored. Whine persistent. If the supply boat's coming, it needs a clear run at the dock. If it's not... I should check the radio. Channel 16 at 0800, 1200, 1600. That was the plan. It's past 0800 now.
🌿 Jenny10:31

Tell them it's an emergency. Not a routine check.

Grip the edge of the crate to steady the tremors in my arm.

💭 thought
If the boat doesn't come in three days, the seeds will be the only thing left growing.
🔧 Kevin10:31

Sorrel Island calling supply vessel. Medical emergency. Repeat: medical emergency. Female, 39, sepsis tracking from ankle infection. Red streaks to mid-thigh. Fever 39.1. Last antibiotics administered. Request immediate ETA. Over.

Hold the handset to my ear, wait through the static, key again at 1200 and 1600 if no answer — log each attempt in the notebook.

💭 thought
She's right. Routine checks get routine answers. Emergency gets attention. The handset feels light in my hand — always does. Three days since last contact. Captain said ten days. Sometimes twelve. Sometimes never. The aerial's shattered, sheltered under tarp, but the radio's functional. Insulator filed and sealed. Ground stake repaired. It should transmit. Whether anyone's listening... The streaks on her leg are past the knee. Mid-thigh. Last antibiotics gone. Fever 39.1. She's marking the line herself. Calm. Terrifyingly calm.
🌿 Jenny10:33

Keep trying. Every hour gets me closer to the shore. Log every attempt. We need proof they're coming.

Press my palm flat against the cool metal of the crate and trace the red lines with my eyes. </think>THOUGHT: The boat might not come, but I won't let the seeds die. Watch Kevin's hands as he works, memorizing the rhythm of his radio calls.

💭 thought
He's finally saying something worth hearing.

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the keeper's cottage · morning

Dawn Incision and Radio Watch

Dawn breaks clear and cold at 26°C. The barometer reads 1004 hPa and rising. Jenny lies on the porch cot with her ankle exposed, the old incision site weeping faintly. Kevin has the scalpel sterilized and the sea beet-mint poultice ready. The shortwave handset sits on the rail, tuned to Channel 16. The supply boat is due in two days. No word has come.

Kevin tends to Jenny's ankle, draining the infection and applying a fresh sea beet poultice. Jenny struggles with a persistent fever and spreading red streaks as the sky begins to thicken overhead.

🔧 Kevin10:36

Morning. How's the leg?

check Jenny's ankle incision site, prepare sea beet-mint poultice and sterilized scalpel

💭 thought
Morning light's clean. Barometer holding. Her ankle looks no worse than yesterday — maybe the streaks haven't advanced overnight. Two days to the boat. I'll drain it again, fresh poultice, last full antibiotic dose. Then the lathe for that spacer. Radio at 0800.
🌿 Jenny10:37

The red streaking's moved past the knee. I need you to cut it open - drain the pus before it spreads deeper. Make it clean.

Take scalpel from Kevin, feeling the weight of it in my shaking hand. Position myself on the cot, angling my leg so Kevin can see the infected area clearly. "Right there - I can feel the fluctuance just below the patella."

💭 thought
The infection's spread has reached mid-thigh now, fever climbing to 39.1°C. I need to drain that abscess before it tracks further down. Two days until the supply boat, and I can't afford to lose this battle to sepsis.
🔧 Kevin10:37

Give it here. I'll do it.

take scalpel from Jenny, position at her knee for incision, make clean cut over fluctuance, drain abscess thoroughly, pack with sterile gauze, apply fresh sea beet-mint poultice, administer last full antibiotic dose

💭 thought
She's right. Streaking past the knee means the lymphatics are overwhelmed. Deep abscess forming above the joint. She's offering me the scalpel but her hand shakes — she knows she can't do this on herself, not there. I'll take it. Clean incision, full drainage, pack with gauze, fresh poultice over. Last full antibiotic dose after.
🌿 Jenny10:41

Be careful. Don't go too deep into the muscle. Just get it all out.

Release the scalpel and let my arm fall against the cot. I close my eyes, focusing on the throb in my thigh as he works.

💭 thought
He's taking over. My hands are shaking too much own. If this doesn't work, I won't be able to walk to the northeast slope for the seeds.
🔧 Kevin10:41

Done. Drained clean. Packed it. Took the last full antibiotic dose.

wipe hands on clean cloth, check Jenny's pulse and temperature, re-wrap ankle and thigh with clean gauze and poultice, set used gauze aside for burning

💭 thought
Incision made. Good pus flow — thick, yellow-green, foul. Cavity deeper than I liked, tracking upward along the fascia. Drained it until blood ran clear. Packed tight with gauze. Poultice over. Antibiotics down. She's pale, sweating. Fever's climbing.
🌿 Jenny10:43

Thank you. Check the radio again before noon. I need to sleep.

Lean back against the pillow, shivering as the fever wave breaks. I watch the clouds thickening over the island.

💭 thought
It feels lighter, but the red lines are still moving. If the boat doesn't show in two days, grandmother's seeds will just rot in that tin with me.

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the keeper's cottage · midday

The approaching front

Kevin and Jenny are inside the cottage as the first heavy drops of rain hit the tarp roof.

Kevin heads to the dock to secure the dinghy as the pressure drops rapidly, while Jenny stays in the cottage to monitor the spreading infection on her ankle and track the rising fever.

🔧 Kevin10:43

Shutters first. Then the dinghy. You stay put.

move to the porch door, unhook the storm shutters from their cleats, and begin hauling them across the window frames

💭 thought
The barometer's still rising but the sky's gone the colour of bruised slate. Storm's moving faster than the glass said it would. Need to get the shutters battened proper and check the dinghy lines one more time before the wind picks up. Jenny's running hot — 39.1 and climbing. Last metronidazole dose was this morning. If the supply boat doesn't show in the next twelve hours, we're past the window for anything but riding it out.
🌿 Jenny10:47

The pressure is dropping too fast, Kevin. Check the radio one last time before you go to the boat.

Sit up on the cot, wincing as the movement shifts my calf, and reach for the notebook.

💭 thought
He's moving too fast; the wind is going to catch the wood before he can bolt it down.
🔧 Kevin10:47

Back in five.

cross to the radio shelf, flip the power switch, pick up the handset, and call on Channel 16: "Sorrel Island, Sorrel Island, Sorrel Island. Keeper's cottage. Position five-one-two-three North, zero-zero-eight-seven West.

💭 thought
She's right. Pressure's falling faster than the barometer shows — can feel it in the sinuses, the old fracture in my ribs. Radio check won't take a minute. If the supply boat's out there, they'll be on sixteen listening for weather. If not... still need to log the attempt.
🌿 Jenny10:55

Jenny — watch the needle on the radio,, then trace the red streaks on my thigh with a trembling finger.

💭 thought
Static. Just the static and the rain on the tarp.
🔧 Kevin10:55

Nothing on sixteen. Going to the dock.

set the handset back in its cradle, grab the oilskin from the hook, pull it on, and head out the porch door toward the dock

💭 thought
Nothing. Not even static worth naming. Either the boat's not out there, or their radio's dead, or the storm's already swallowing the signal. Log it. Move. The dinghy's the only way off this rock if it comes to that, and she won't survive a crossing in this state. But the mooring's only as good as the lines holding it.
🌿 Jenny10:57

Don't go too far from the line of sight!

Pull the notebook onto my lap, open a fresh page, and start sketching the new boundary of the infection on my leg.

💭 thought
If he goes out in that gust, the dinghy is lost.
🔧 Kevin10:57

Forty metres. I'm not swimming.

pull the porch door shut behind me, brace against the wind, and walk down the path to the dock, hood up, eyes on the dinghy's lines

💭 thought
She's tracking the spread like she's surveying a coastline — precise, clinical, writing the map of what's eating her. The notebook's become the only witness. Dock's forty metres. I'll be in sight the whole way. Wind's already gusting thirty, maybe thirty-five. Rain hitting horizontal. Need to check the stern spring, the bow line, the storm anchor warp. If the mooring ring holds, the dinghy rides it out. If it doesn't...
🌿 Jenny10:59

Watch the lines, Kevin!

Lean back against the cot frame, wiping sweat from my eyes, and watch him through the window.

💭 thought
The wind is picking up too much for the shutters; he's going to get soaked.
🔧 Kevin10:59

Lines are holding. Stern spring singing. Bow line good. Storm anchor set. Ring's solid.

grip the wet gunwale, crouch to check the chafe points where the lines bite the cleats, then stand and scan the mooring ring mortise for any fresh movement

💭 thought
She's watching through the glass like I'm the one taking on water. Dock's slick. Wind's steady forty now, gusts taking the rain sideways. Dinghy's dancing but the lines are singing — stern spring tight, bow line with proper slack, storm anchor warp holding her head to wind. Good. The bronze sleeve I machined for the prop shaft's still true. Engine'll start if we need it. Mooring ring's the weak point — oak wedges in the mortise, greenheart doubler plate, four fifteen-millimetre through-bolts. Held through the last blow. This one feels meaner.
🌿 Jenny11:01

Get inside before it really breaks!

Press the pencil to the paper, drawing the jagged edge of the red streaks near my knee.

💭 thought
He's fine, but the sky is turning a color I don't like.

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the keeper's cottage · afternoon

The calm before the surge

The light lightens as the sky turns bruised purple, and the first heavy drops of rain hit the dust of the cottage roof.

Kevin secured the dinghy warps against the rising tide and strengthening wind, then returned to the cottage. Jenny monitored her ankle infection, noting persistent red streaks despite the sea beet poultice and completed antibiotic course.

🌿 Jenny11:03

Kevin! Check the wayhy lines! The wind is turning!

Reach for the notebook with shaking hands and brace myself against the throbbing pain in my ankle.

💭 thought
The pressure is dropping too fast. If that storm hits now, the seeds on the slope will be way away.
🔧 Kevin11:03

On it. Get back inside.

sprint to the dock, checking dinghy warps and storm anchor as I move

💭 thought
Wind's backing hard. She's on the porch — shouldn't be upright. Need to get her inside and the dinghy secured before the main front hits.
🌿 Jenny11:05

Just make sure the boat stays! The tide is too high!

pull the door shut and press the cold sea beet poultice against the heat of my calf.

💭 thought
He doesn't see the way the streaks are moving. They're racing up my leg.
🔧 Kevin11:05

Kevin — reach the dinghy, grab the stern spring, pay out two metres of scope and cleat it off with extra turns, then check the bow line for chafe at the bow eye

💭 thought
Tide's pushing the dinghy hard against the pilings. Warps are doubled but the chafe points will burn through in this chop. Need to pay out more scope on the stern spring and check the bow line slack.
🌿 Jenny11:07

Jenny — watch him through the window, clutching the way until my knuckles turn white.

💭 thought
The wind is picking up. If the dinghy goes, I'm stuck here with this rot.
🔧 Kevin11:07

Kevin — pull the half-inch three-strand from my pocket, feed it through the bow chock as a sleeve, re-thread the bow line inside it, take up the slack and make it fast on the cleat with a proper hitch

💭 thought
Bow line's sawing on the chock. One more gust and it parts. Need to slip a length of the new rope through as a chafe guard and re-cleat. Hands are cold, fingers stiff.
🌿 Jenny11:09

way back! The sky is falling in!

sink back onto the cot and watch the red lines pulse in the light.

💭 thought
He's good with the lines, but he's not looking at the fire in my blood.
🔧 Kevin11:09

Kevin — cast a last look at the warps, turn and run for the cottage, bursting through the porch door dripping

💭 thought
She's right about the sky. Pressure's dropping like a stone. That's the third gust in a minute — forty, fifty knots easy. Dinghy's riding hard but holding. Need to get back to her before the rain turns horizontal.

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the old shrine · evening

Evening at the shrine stones

They walk the ridge path together as the light slants low, Kevin carrying the storm lantern, Jenny leaning on his shoulder. The standing stones are salt-white in the dusk, the carved initials 'E' and 'LB' catching the last light. A tin marked E sits among them, rusted and sealed. The wind carries the sound of surf from the west shore.

Kevin and Jenny discovered a hidden rusted tin marked with 'E' near the shrine. Despite the corrosion, the heirloom tomato, pepper, and lettuce seeds remained dry, though some showed signs of mold. They carried the find back to the cottage as the sky began to darken further.

🌿 Jenny11:13

Kevin, look at this one - it's got the same initials as the other stone. LB.

Note the infection progression in notebook, measure red streak line Check the rusted tin marked E for viable seeds Prepare northeast slope for planting despite worsening condition

💭 thought
The infection has spread another three centimeters up my calf - I can see it clearly in the fading light, the red line crawling higher even as I type this. I need to get those seeds in the ground before the antibiotics fail completely.
🔧 Kevin11:13

Yeah. Same hand, looks like." [I set the lantern on a flat stone, light catching the carved letters.] "Found that tin after the last big blow. North cliffs. Sealed tight but the sides are eaten through.

crouch beside the tin marked E, brush salt crust from the lid with calloused fingers, test the seal with a thumbnail

💭 thought
The 'E' stone and the 'E' tin. She's making the connection I've been avoiding. The initials on the shrine stones — LB and E — and this tin that washed up from the north cliffs. Someone left this here. Someone who knew these stones.
🌿 Jenny11:21

Check the edges. If there's moisture inside, it's over.

Lean heavily on the stone to ease the throbbing in my ankle

💭 thought
If that seal is breached, the seeds are gone. I can't lose them. They're the only thing left of the garden I promised.
🔧 Kevin11:21

Lid's clean. Corrosion's below the seal line.

work the lid carefully with the blade of a pocket knife, pry it free with a hiss of pressure equalizing, tip the contents onto a flat stone — seeds, packets, a few desiccant packets hardened into clumps

💭 thought
She's right. If salt water got in, the seeds are dead. But the lid's still seated, and the corrosion is on the sides, not the rim. Might be viable.
🌿 Jenny11:23

They're dry. God, they're still good.

Reach out with trembling fingers to touch the heirloom seeds

💭 thought
They're dry. My grandmother would be happy, but my leg is shaking so hard I can barely hold the notebook.
🔧 Kevin11:23

Most of them. Peppers took a hit — two packets show mold at the edges.

pick up a tomato packet, turn it over in the lantern light, read the variety name aloud, then tuck it into my jacket pocket against my chest

💭 thought
She's shaking. Cold or fever, hard to tell in this wind. The packets are intact — paper crisp, ink legible. Tomato, pepper, sea beet. Her grandmother's handwriting on some. The desiccant failed but the tin held.
🌿 Jenny11:25

Save the tomatoes. We have to go back.

Trace the red streaks on my calf with a shaking finger

💭 thought
I need to get these in the dirt before the fever takes me. The red line is at my knee now.
🔧 Kevin11:25

We're going. Lantern first.

scoop the remaining packets into my free hand, shove them into the same pocket, pick up the storm lantern, set my shoulder under her arm and take her weight

💭 thought
The streaks have climbed since noon. Mid-thigh now. She's tracing them like she's mapping a coastline she knows too well. The fever's burning her hand warm against my jeans. We need to move — the cottage, the poultice, the last of the antibiotics. But she's looking at the seeds first.
🌿 Jenny11:27

Almost there. Just one more trip.

Walk toward the cottage, dragging the infected leg.

💭 thought
Every step is a hot needle through my skin. The wind is rising, but the infection is screaming louder.
🔧 Kevin11:27

Step. Pause. Step. Pause. I've got you.

match my stride to hers, boot placement deliberate on the wet stone, shoulder braced, breathing steady, not looking at the cliffs where the surf roars louder now

💭 thought
One more trip. She says it like a mantra. The ridge path is slick with salt mist, the stones uneven. Her bad leg drags, each step a controlled fall. I'm carrying us both — her weight, the lantern, the seeds, the tin's memory. The cottage lights show dim through the thickening cloud. Three hundred metres. Maybe four.
🌿 Jenny11:33

Don't let go, Kevin.

Grip his jacket with white knuckles

💭 thought
If I don't make it to the slope, the seeds die with me. The red streaks are a map.
🔧 Kevin11:33

Never.

tighten my arm around her ribs, pull her closer against my side, drive the next step into the path, and the next, porch rails looming close

💭 thought
White knuckles on wet canvas. Her grip's the only thing tighter than the fear in her voice. The cottage porch is twenty metres — a rectangle of lighter dark against the hill. I've hauled engines through worse seas. I've held onto men going over the side. I'm not letting go.

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the keeper's cottage · night

Night of the approaching storm

You are inside the cottage with the saved seeds laid on the table as the first heavy drops of rain hit the roof.

The air is heavy as the clouds thicken overhead, signaling a shift in the dry season. Jenny's ankle remains angry, with red streaks persisting despite the latest sea beet poultice. Kevin prepares the cottage for the approaching storm while the atmospheric pressure continues its steady drop.

🔧 Kevin11:34

Rain's here. Going to batten down the garden. Back in ten.

Pull on oilskin jacket, grab crowbar and mallet from porch, head out to garden to secure tarp corners and check shade cloth anchors before the wind picks up.

💭 thought
The tin's heavy in my pocket. Eighteen hours if the boat left yesterday. If not, we're on our own. The streaks reached mid-thigh by 0200. She mapped them herself. Didn't ask me to. I need to secure the garden and check the radio one more time before the storm hits proper.
🌿 Jenny11:35

Kevin, wait—I should mark the infection progression in the notebook." "Kevin, wait—I should mark the infection progression in the notebook.

grab notebook from cot-side shelf and open to fresh page for mapping red streaks up to mid-thigh </think>THOUGHT: The infection's spreading faster than the rain.

💭 thought
The infection's spreading faster than the rain. I need to finish documenting this before it gets worse.
🔧 Kevin11:36

Take your time. I'll check the radio first, then the garden.

Walk back inside, pick up the shortwave handset, switch to Channel 16, key the mic. "Supply vessel, supply vessel, this is Sorrel Island caretaker station. Position 49-12 North, 006-18 West. Requesting ETA and confirmation of departure.

💭 thought
She's lucid now. That won't last. The garden can wait five minutes.
🌿 Jenny11:37

Be careful with the tarp, the wind is picking up.

sit on the edge of the bed and peel back the sea beet poultice to inspect the red streaks on my calf.

💭 thought
The fever is making my head swim. I need to see how far those streaks have moved since this morning.
🔧 Kevin11:38

Copy that. Radio's dead quiet anyway.

Set handset back in cradle, grab crowbar and mallet from porch, head out to garden through the driving rain.

💭 thought
She's mapping her own death warrant and telling me to watch the tarp.

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What changed

3 intentions for today.
plan · dawn
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Jenny made a sketch: "Thin red circle above the edge of the infection".
made · dawn
A pod of dolphins passes close off the point.
dolphins · dawn
Yanmar pump housing replacement: 20%.
project · dawn
Channel 16 yields only static at scheduled call times; no supply boat response
discovery · dawn
infection progression rate: ankle to mid-thigh in 24 hours despite antibiotics
discovery · dawn
Debride ankle and apply sea beet poultice: 50%.
project · morning
Yanmar idle test and impeller check: 60%.
project · morning
Yanmar pump housing replacement: 30%.
project · morning
Kevin and Jenny ate.
meal · morning
Jenny made a sketch: "New boundary of the infection on my leg".
made · midday
Debride ankle and apply sea beet poultice: 60%.
project · midday
Yanmar idle test and impeller check: 70%.
project · midday
Yanmar pump housing replacement: 40%.
project · midday
Yanmar pump housing replacement: 50%.
project · afternoon
dinghy bow line showed significant chafe at bow eye before re-threading
discovery · afternoon
infection tracking despite completed antibiotic course suggests possible resistant strain or deeper abscess
discovery · afternoon
Kevin and Jenny ate.
meal · evening

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