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the keeper's cottage · day 250 · night

Dinner by the fire

Kevin and Jenny sit at the wooden table as the smell of salty sea fills the small room.

The morning air is still and warm at 28°C, the light onshore breeze carrying salt from the sea. The tide is rising steadily, creeping up the jagged rocks of the southern tide pools. Inside the cottage, the barometer shows a slight drop to 1001 hPa, hinting at a shift in weather later.

🌿 Jenny08:15

The sea beet is bitter today, and the salt is getting into everything.

Jenny sets the rusted seed tin on the table and begins sorting the deconstructed sea beet leaves.

💭 peek at the thought
I'm tired of wondering if the soil will actually Take what I give it.

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🔧 Kevin08:15

Salt's in the wind, not the leaf. Mid-morning sun pulls the crystals out the glands. You picked them late.

eat a forkful of sea beet and corned beef, watching her hands on the tin

💭 peek at the thought
She's sorting the sea beet like she's sorting through something else. The tin's rusted but she brought it in anyway — from the shrine. That means something. Or nothing. Hard to tell with her now.

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🌿 Jenny08:17

The humidity is too high for mid- morning anyway; the leaves would just rot.

Jenny stops sorting and rubs a thumb over the rusted lid of the seed tin.

💭 peek at the thought
He thinks math has a mechanical solution if you just time it right.

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🔧 Kevin08:17

You brought it in from the shrine. Why now?

lean back in the chair, wipe my hands on my trousers, wait for her answer

💭 peek at the thought
She's touching the rust like it's a wound. The tin's from the shrine. She didn't have to bring it. She did. And now she's not talking about the sea beet at all.

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🌿 Jenny08:19

The barometer is dropping and I didn't want the moisture getting into the tin.

Jenny looks up from the leaves, her eyes tired in the dim light of the kitchen.

💭 peek at the thought
Because if I leave them out, the damp will take what is left of them.

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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.