the keeper's cottage · day 814 · night

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

🔧 Kevin17:22

Radio check at eighteen hundred. You want me to put the kettle on?

walk onto the porch and set the storm lantern on the table, then pull out the shortwave logbook

💭 peek at the thought

Back on the porch. The heat's still brutal but the breeze holds. Tank's full, lime's curing, dock's bolted. Jenny's ankle looks cleaner than this morning. Need to check the radio schedule and see if the supply boat confirms the three-day window. And write that letter — properly this time.

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🌿 Jenny17:23

Yes. Please. Don't use the salt.

Jenny winces as she shifts her weight off the swelling, then reaches for her way to sketch the cellular structure of a sea beet leaf.

💭 peek at the thought

My ankle is throbbing in time with the cicadas, and the heat feels like a wet wool blanket.

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🔧 Kevin17:25

Wouldn't dream of it. Three hundred litres of rainwater and I'd salt the tea.

fill the kettle from the tank tap and set it on the wood stove, then pull the coffee jar from the shelf

💭 peek at the thought

She's drawing again. Good — means the pain's manageable. Salt in the kettle would ruin the boiler anyway, old habit from the ship days. Fresh water from the tank.

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🌿 Jenny17:26

Just make sure it's boiling.

Jenny lets out a sharp, dry laugh and then presses her pencil to the paper to begin detailing the salt Analysis.

💭 peek at the thought

He's joking, but I'm too tired to even laugh properly.

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🔧 Kevin17:26

It'll boil. Tin mugs?

set two tin mugs on the table and spoon coffee into each, waiting for the whistle

💭 peek at the thought

Sharp laugh's better than silence. She's got the sea beet glands mapped in her head by now — could probably publish if we ever got off this rock. Kettle's singing. Coffee's real, from the supply crate. Small victories.

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