the keeper's cottage · day 394 · night

The First Gust

The wind picks up a howl against the roof. You and Jenny are inside as the first heavy drops rain hit the dust.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🔧 Kevin03:22

Radio aerial first. Then generator. You stay off that ankle.

Walk to the porch and check the shortwave aerial tension and insulator, then move to the generator to verify storm lashings are tight.

💭 peek at the thought

Storm's here. Barometer was falling all afternoon. Need to check the generator lashings and the radio aerial before the wind tears them loose. Jenny's ankle can't wait either — those red streaks are tracking upward.

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🌿 Jenny03:23

I'm staying. Just need to finish this sketch.

Wrap the ankle tightly with a clean cloth and pull the notebook closer to the light.

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer is dropping too fast; if this storm hits before the boat, I won't be able to walk to the dock anyway.

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🔧 Kevin03:24

Sketch keeps. Ankle doesn't. Radio aerial's on the mast — if that insulator blows, we're blind until the supply boat. I'm going up.

Grab the LED headlamp from the shelf, pull on the oilskin jacket, and head out the porch door toward the radio mast.

💭 peek at the thought

She's not staying off it. The wrapping's good — tight, clean — but she's still putting weight on it sitting there, and the swelling's already past the cloth edge. Storm's not waiting for sketches.

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🌿 Jenny03:25

Be careful on the ladder.

Watch him through the window, my pencil hovering over the paper but not moving.

💭 peek at the thought

If he falls in that wind, I won't even be able to get out to him.

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🔧 Kevin03:26

Rungs are good. Bracket's the weak point. Back in ten.

Climb the mast ladder to the insulator bracket, testing each rung before committing weight, headlamp beam cutting through the driving rain.

💭 peek at the thought

Ladder's sound. Checked the rungs last week. It's the mast bracket I'm worried about — that slight misalignment from the storm prep, and the new insulator's epoxy bond hasn't had a full cure cycle in this humidity. Wind's already gusting past thirty.

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🌿 Jenny03:27

Watch the tension on the wire!

Grip the edge of the kitchen table, my knuckles white, watching the headlamp beam dance against the dark sky.

💭 peek at the thought

The wind is picking up too much; if that bracket shears, he's going down with the mast.

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