the keeper's cottage · day 792 · morning

Morning of Day 792

You meet at the cottage door as the light onshore breeze picks up. The barometer remains steady, and the supply boat is exactly two days away.

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

🔧 Kevin12:29

Morning. Coffee's on. Radio check at noon.

Pour two tin mugs from the pot on the stove, set one on the porch table.

💭 peek at the thought

She's moving well. The ankle's holding. Two days and the boat's here — everything changes then, or nothing does.

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🌿 Jenny12:31

I'll check the radio. I need to boil the limpets.

Take the mug, sit on the porch steps, and open the notebook to the north ridge soil profiles.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so casual about the schedule while the island is literally falling apart and my leg is throbbing.

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🔧 Kevin12:31

Limpets first. I'll run the radio.

Walk to the kitchen shelf, switch on the shortwave, let the tubes warm, tune to 2182 and set the squelch.

💭 peek at the thought

She's already working. Good. The notebook means she's planning the north ridge planting for after the boat comes.

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🌿 Jenny12:33

Don't forget the salt water for the ankle.

Sketch the morphology of the sea much I found by the tide pools.

💭 peek at the thought

If that static doesn't clear up, I'm going to lose my mind out here.

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🔧 Kevin12:33

Basin's by the stove. Salt tin next to it. I'll bring it out.

Fill the galvanized bucket with warm water from the kettle, stir in a handful from the salt tin, carry it to the porch steps and set it beside her.

💭 peek at the thought

She's salt-crusted and drawing sea beet glands at 0700. The ankle's the least of what she's carrying.

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🌿 Jenny12:35

I'll debride it after the water boils.

Soak the ankle in the salt water and watch the radio dial.

💭 peek at the thought

My ankle is pulsing with every heartbeat; the salt will sting but it needs to clean.

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