the keeper's cottage · day 106 · midday

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

Jenny cooked limpets for lunch while Kevin watched and ate. Both felt hungry and ate two limpets each. The rain continued steadily, filling the tank.

🌿 Jenny17:23

I'm making lunch.

Walk to the kitchen, pick up the iron skillet, and sear the limpets in the corned beef fat.

💭 peek at the thought

The rain is drumming on the roof, and my stomach is growling loud enough that I need those limpets cooked before I lose the energy to even stand.

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🔧 Kevin17:23

Kevin — walk to the kitchen doorway and lean against the frame, watching the limpets hit the fat

💭 peek at the thought

Good. The skillet's still hot from breakfast. Corned beef fat'll give the limpets a proper sear — they toughen fast if the pan isn't screaming.

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🌿 Jenny17:25

If you're hungry, there's enough coming.

Flip the limpets with a fork, letting the salt and fat sizz in the pan.

💭 peek at the thought

He's just standing there like a ghost, waiting for me to start a conversation I don't want to have.

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🔧 Kevin17:25

I'm hungry.

step into the kitchen proper, pull out the wooden chair at the table, and sit down — close enough to catch the steam but out of the splatter line

💭 peek at the thought

She doesn't ask. Just states it. The way she's done for months now.

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🌿 Jenny17:27

Wait a minute.

Slide the cooked limpets from the skillet onto a plate and set it on the table near him.

💭 peek at the thought

At least he's sitting down instead of hovering. The smell of the fat is filling the room, making the cottage feel less like a museum today.

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🔧 Kevin17:27

Thanks.

pick up a limpet with my fingers, pull the foot free, and eat it — hot, salty, rich with beef fat

💭 peek at the thought

Plate's chipped on the rim — the blue one. She always gives me the blue one.

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🌿 Jenny17:29

They're fresh from the tide pools.

Sit across from him, grab my own plate, and start watching the rain against the glass.

💭 peek at the thought

He eats like he hasn't seen a real meal in months. I should probably tell him about the tide, but why bother?

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🔧 Kevin17:29

Good haul.

eat another limpet, slower this time, chewing through the gristle while the rain hammers the porch roof

💭 peek at the thought

She's not eating yet. Just watching the rain. The barometer held steady at 1013 — rain's not going anywhere, but it's not building to anything either.

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