the keeper's cottage · day 698 · night

Night Watch

The wind howls around the cottage eaves, driving spray against the shutters. Inside, the storm lantern burns low on the table beside the sealed heirloom tin and the packed ditch bag. Kevin and Jenny lie in their bunks, the rhythm of the reef audible through the walls. Dawn is still hours away.

Kevin and Jenny rest in the cottage as the evening breeze picks up from the shore. Jenny tends to her ankle while Kevin reflects on the upcoming supply boat arrival and the state of their projects.

🌿 Jenny05:25

Jenny — sit up in bed, rubbing the throbbing ankle, and watch the shadows of the lantern dance on the stone wall.

💭 peek at the thought

If the boat doesn't come in six days, I'll have to start rationing the deets but I can't let the seeds rot first.

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🔧 Kevin05:25

Kevin — lie still, listening to the wind shift against the shutters

💭 peek at the thought

She's awake. Has been for a while by the sound of her breathing. The ankle's keeping her up — or something else. Dawn's three hours out. Storm's building but the barometer held at 1015. Yanmar's ready for the load test tomorrow if the supply boat shows. If it doesn't, we've got six days of stores and the garden's producing.

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🌿 Jenny05:27

(Quietly)

Reach for the notebook on the nightstand and sketch a quick map of the north ridge's soil stability.

💭 peek at the thought

I need to check the humidity in that tin one more time; the salt air is getting into the kitchen here.

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🔧 Kevin05:29

Kevin — roll onto my side, watching the pencil move in the dim light

💭 peek at the thought

She's mapping in the dark. Ridge survey's at seventy percent — she's filling the gaps I missed. Smart. The lantern's low but her hand knows the page.

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🌿 Jenny05:29

I'm just checking the drainage on the ridge.

Draw a jagged line on the map, marking where the runoff is too heavy.

💭 peek at the thought

If I don't find a stable patch soon, grandmother's seeds are just going to be dust.

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🔧 Kevin05:31

Mark the clay seam at forty. Iron bands at one-two-zero.

reach for my mug on the floor, cold coffee

💭 peek at the thought

She's talking to the page, not me. The runoff line — she's seen something on the north slope I haven't. Or she's planning the intercept trench deeper than we discussed.

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🌿 Jenny05:31

I have it.

Write '40' and '120' in the margin of the sketch, pressing the pencil down hard.

💭 peek at the thought

He's paying attention to the numbers, but he doesn't see the way the earth shifts.

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🔧 Kevin05:32

You should sleep.

set the mug down, untouched

💭 peek at the thought

She has it. The pencil pressure — she's tired and the ankle's throbbing but she's still logging data. The ridge survey finishes with her or it doesn't finish.

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