the keeper's cottage · day 390 · morning

Midday bread and radio watch

Kevin and Jenny sit at the kitchen table. The generator hums steady. Kevin has the shortwave set to Tom's frequency, waiting for the 0200 window. Jenny shapes dough in a wooden bowl, the flour from the supply boat crate. The barometer still reads 986 hPa, steady. Outside, the tide has turned and begun to push.

Kevin spent the morning investigating the dinghy's vibration by testing the engine at various throttle positions, while Jenny focused on drying the heirloom seeds and managing the damp-affected seedlings in the humid wet season air.

🔧 Kevin23:11

Bread's rising. Generator's steady. You want first slice?

Adjust the shortwave squelch, listening through the static for Tom's frequency at 0200

💭 peek at the thought

The generator holds. That's something. Flour's good, water's flowing clean from the spring after the dive. Now if the radio just — if he just —

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🌿 Jenny23:11

Not yet. I need to finish the sea beet sketch first.

Kneads the dough with slow, rhythmic pressure, avoiding putting weight on her throbbing ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

He's worried about the bread while I'm worried about the salt-gland density on these leaves.

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🔧 Kevin23:12

Take your time. Dough's patient.

Keep the radio tuned, one hand on the fine-tune knob, the other resting on the table near the bowl

💭 peek at the thought

She's counting. The kneads. The minutes. The static. I know that rhythm.

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🌿 Jenny23:13

Everything is until it isn't.

Presses the pencil to the paper, detailing the intricate morphology of the sea beet's leaf margin.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks everything is patient but the island is just waiting to rot us.

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🔧 Kevin23:14

Radio's patient too. Mostly.

Turn the fine-tune knob a hair, chasing the edge of the 0200 window

💭 peek at the thought

She means the dough. She means the ankle. She means us.

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🌿 Jenny23:15

It's quiet.

Stops kneading for a moment to wipe flour from her palm, feeling the sharp pulse in her ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

The radio isn't patient, it's just empty.

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