the keeper's cottage · day 46 · morning

Breakfast and radio check

They meet in the kitchen as the generator hums. Kevin sets the cast iron skillet on the stove while Jenny checks the seed packets one last time. The shortwave radio sits on the table, cracked insulator taped, battery at 60%. Outside the barometer reads 995 hPa and falling.

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

🔧 Kevin18:41

Coffee's on if you want it. Skillet's hot.

crack two eggs into the cast iron skillet, let them fry slow in the bacon fat from yesterday

💭 peek at the thought

Kitchen smells like cold iron and damp stone. Generator's steady hum under the floorboards. She's still at the seeds — good. Means she's not watching me.

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🌿 Jenny18:42

I'll take the coffee. Just don't burn the eggs.

Jenny picks up a damp packet of heirloom seeds, feeling the slight grit under her thumb before moving it an inch closer to the generator's warmth.

💭 peek at the thought

The pressure is dropping too fast; if the rain hits before these seeds are dry, the whole batch goes to rot.

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🔧 Kevin18:42

Never burn eggs. Just get them crisp at the edges.

slide the eggs onto a chipped enamel plate, set it on the table beside the radio, pour two mugs of coffee black and steaming

💭 peek at the thought

She's testing me. Or testing the silence. Either way the eggs are easy.

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🌿 Jenny18:44

Thanks. The barometer is dropping—we need to move.

Jenny takes the mug, wrapping both hands around the ceramic for warmth, and stares at the sea beet sketch in her notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

He's trying to be helpful, but the humidity is still high enough to taste it in the air.

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🔧 Kevin18:44

Move what?

take my mug, lean against the doorframe watching her face over the rim

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. 995 and falling means front's closing fast. But move where? The dinghy's tied. The cottage stands. She means the garden, or the radio, or something I haven't looked at yet.

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🌿 Jenny18:46

The seeds. I'm moving the tin to the

💭 peek at the thought

If I don't get these into the sheltered stone area now, the damp will claim them by morning.

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