the keeper's cottage · day 846 · night

Night of Day 846

The wind begins to pick up, rattling the shutters. Jenny's fever breaks into a sweat, and the first heavy drops of rain hit the tin roof.

The air is heavy and still as the thickening cloud cover presses down on the flat sky. The barometer continues its steady drop to 982 hPa, signaling an imminent shift in the weather. The tide is receding rapidly, exposing slick rocks and the base of the south pilings near the dock.

🔧 Kevin14:25

Fever broke. Good. Stay put. I'll secure the dinghy and shutters.

Walk to the dock to check the dinghy mooring lines and storm anchor warp tension.

💭 peek at the thought

Storm's here. Barometer at 982 and falling fast. Need to get the dinghy warp checked and the cottage battened before dark. Jenny's fever broke — that's good — but she's still weak. Can't have her moving around in this.

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🌿 Jenny14:27

Don't get out there, the deck is slick.

Jenny wipes sweat from her eyes with the back of a hand and reaches for the glass of water.

💭 peek at the thought

way, the heat is breaking, but this storm is going to be hell on the dock.

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🔧 Kevin14:27

I'll stay low. Three-point contact. Just checking the bow warp and the stern spring.

Move down the dock carefully, crouched low with three points of contact, to inspect the dinghy's bow warp at the mooring ring and the stern spring at the north piling.

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the deck. Wet greenheart goes slick as ice. But the dinghy's our only way off if things go wrong. Need to check the lines anyway — can do it careful.

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🌿 Jenny14:29

The tide is coming faster than the charts said.

Jenny grips her pencil tight, eyes fixed on the sea beet sketch as the cottage shakes under the wind.

💭 peek at the thought

he's going to slip if that swell hits before he<strong> the lines.

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🔧 Kevin14:31

Charts are wrong. Surge comes on the flood with this wind. I'm at the ring now — checking the bolts.

Reach the dinghy at the end of the dock, crouch by the mooring ring, and check the four 150mm stainless through-bolts on the steel doubler plate for any movement or water weeping around the mortise.

💭 peek at the thought

Tide running early and hard. Barometer dropping, wind backing west — surge will hit the dock before midnight. The mooring ring held last storm but the oak wedges have taken a beating. Need to see if the doubler plate's still tight.

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🌿 Jenny14:32

Get back here, Kevin! The water is turning black!

Jenny stands at the edge of the porch, heart wiring against her ribs as she watches the dark waves claw at the pilings.

💭 peek at the thought

if those bolts pull through, the whole boat is lost to the surge.

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