the keeper's cottage · day 731 · night

Evening Storm Watch

The two gather inside the cottage as the flat sky thickens to a bruised purple. The leak in the shutter continues to drip rhythmically as the wind picks up.

Heavy rain lashes the cottage from the west as the pressure continues to drop. Kevin and Jenny stay indoors to wait out the storm, listening to the leak in the roof and the wind in the garden wall.

🔧 Kevin08:42

Roof drip's steady. Wind's going west. You take the bed. I'll kip on the porch with the radio.

Set the storm lantern on the kitchen table, pull the spare blanket from the shelf, and spread it on the porch bench.

💭 peek at the thought

Wind's backing west. Shutter leak'll drive rain across the floorboards if we don't catch it. She's favouring the ankle bad — shouldn't be on the stairs tonight.

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🌿 Jenny08:43

Don't be ridiculous. The rain is going to be sideways.

Walk to the table, pick up the tin of grandmother's seeds, and trace the rusted rim with a tired thumb.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks he's being helpful by staying out there, but he's just going to get a cold.

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🔧 Kevin08:44

Loft ladder's steep. You'll tear the stitches.

Pull out the bench cushion and the folded canvas from under the stove, make a pallet on the kitchen floor away from the shutter wall.

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. Porch'll be soaked inside an hour. But she shouldn't climb the loft ladder either, not with that ankle.

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🌿 Jenny08:45

The floor is fine. I'm not climbing anything.

Sit on the low kitchen chair, open the notebook, and begin sketching the morphology of the sea beet leaves used earlier.

💭 peek at the thought

He's always managing me like I'm some fragile specimen that's already dying.

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