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the keeper's cottage · day 161 · night

Night at the cottage

Kevin and Jenny are inside the keeper's cottage. The generator runs outside. Lantern light falls on the table where Jenny's notebook lies open to sea beet sketches. Kevin sits on the cot pulling off his boots. Jenny wraps the blanket tighter. The tide is low and the barometer still rising.

Kevin completes the Yanmar housing repair by fitting the bronze sleeve and torquing the bolt to 35Nm. Jenny attempts to sketch sea beet clusters in the notebook but struggles with the detail as the pressure continues to drop despite the dry season air.

🔧 Kevin20:43

You want the lantern on the shelf or by the bunk?

pull off second boot and set both by the door

💭 peek at the thought
The barometer's still climbing. Good. Means the front's holding off. My hands smell like cutting oil and salt — need to wash them proper before I touch the cot.

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🌿 Jenny20:43

On the shelf. I want to see the salt gland detail.

Reach out and slide the lantern toward the notebook.

💭 peek at the thought
If I move it to the shelf, I can see the sketches better without leaning over.

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🔧 Kevin20:44

Sketches look cleaner than mine.

walk to the basin and scrub hands with the grit soap

💭 peek at the thought
She's still chasing the morphology. Good. Means the transect stuck.

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🌿 Jenny20:45

They're different kinds of work.

Pick up the pencil and trace the outline of a sea beet cluster on the page.

💭 peek at the thought
His hands are covered in grease, mine are just graphite and salt.

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🔧 Kevin20:46

The Yanmar'll hold. Bronze sleeve's seated, bolt torqued to thirty-five. Only thing left is the sea trial.

dry hands on the towel and sit on the cot edge, rolling one shoulder

💭 peek at the thought
She's not wrong. Lines on paper versus lines on metal. Both hold or they don't.

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🌿 Jenny20:47

I hope so. The boat is coming in three days anyway.

Look down at the barometer, 997 hPa and still falling.

💭 peek at the thought
If the engine fails, I can't get to the northern shelf.

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

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