the keeper's cottage · day 662 · night

Evening Meal Prep

Kevin and Jenny meet at the cottage as the light fades. The smell of the wood stove fills the small space.

Kevin and Jenny shared limpet broth at the cottage table in silence. Kevin respected Jenny's privacy when she shielded her notebook. The barometer continued falling to 981 hPa as night deepened.

🔧 Kevin08:03

Kettle's hot if you want broth. Got limpets in the pot too.

Pour two tin mugs of limpet broth from the pot on the stove, set one on the table near her chair.

💭 peek at the thought

The stove's eating through the last of the dry kindling. Need to split more tomorrow before the wet weather settles in proper. She's favoring the ankle less than this morning.

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🌿 Jenny08:05

Thanks.

Reach for the mug, wrapping both hands around the warm metal to dull the chill in my fingers.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks a bowl will fix the fact that the barometer is crashing and my leg is screaming.

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🔧 Kevin08:06

Eat while it's hot. Salt'll help the ankle.

Sit opposite her at the table, blow on my own mug, watch the steam rise.

💭 peek at the thought

She's cold. The damp gets in the bones out here. Barometer's still dropping — 981 now. Tomorrow's tide will test the south piling brace proper.

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🌿 Jenny08:07

I'll try.

Take a small sip of the broth, wincing as the movement shifts my swollen ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

Salt is for wounds, Kevin, not inflammation in the joint.

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🔧 Kevin08:07

Poultice working?

Sip broth, set mug down, reach for the notebook tucked under my elbow.

💭 peek at the thought

She's tougher than she lets on. But the wince tells me the infection's still tracking. Poultice pulled good fluid today though. No new heat past mid-calf. That's something.

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🌿 Jenny08:09

It's a mess.

Pull the notebook closer to my chest, shielding the sketches from his reach.

💭 peek at the thought

It smells like a rotting pier and still hurts like hell.

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🔧 Kevin08:11

Didn't ask to see it.

Pull my hand back, wrap both hands around the mug again, watch the broth settle.

💭 peek at the thought

She's guarding it. The sketches. Always the sketches. Salt glands, elevation gradients — she treats them like they're classified. I've seen the pages. She knows I have. Still pulls them close.

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🌿 Jenny08:11

I know.

Look down at the broth, watching the ripple of the oil in the liquid.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so impatient with everything he can't fix.

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