the keeper's cottage · day 940 · morning

Morning work and weather closing in

Kevin and Jenny are at the cottage. The sky has thickened to a flat grey ceiling. Kevin has the forge tools staged and the auger bit hardened. Jenny's seed trays are planted but the ridge work waits. The supply boat comes tomorrow at high tide. Rain threatens before noon.

Kevin and Jenny argued over her worsening ankle infection and the north ridge drainage work. Kevin blocked her path to the ridge, insisting she rest while he handled the poultice and radio check. Jenny conceded and transmitted updated infection boundary coordinates. The shortwave picked up a distant news broadcast about New Zealand's election.

🌿 Jenny09:13

We need to reinforce the north ridge drainage before the storm hits—those weep zones will turn to mud if the rain comes down hard.

Check the shortwave radio battery level and test the emergency frequency; then walk to the forge to harden the auger bit properly.

💭 peek at the thought

The infection's spreading faster than the antibiotics can catch it, and the ridge soil's still too acidic for grandmother's seeds to survive another week of rain.

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🔧 Kevin09:14

Ridge can wait. Boat's tomorrow. You're not hauling gear up that slope in this.

key the mic on 2182 for the 0600 radio check, then set the ditch bag strap across my shoulder

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the weep zones — saw the same slump on the map. But the auger's done, the stakes are driven, and the ridge is three hours of slick clay in rising wind. She's moving fast for someone who hid the infection spread.

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🌿 Jenny09:15

I'll be fine. The ridge needs the drainage work before the rain—if those weep zones flood, we lose three weeks of planting time.

Apply fresh sea beet poultice to the infected ankle line, then take the hardened auger bit and climb the north ridge slope to dig the intercept trench before the storm hits.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks I'm fragile, still treating me like I'm broken instead of seeing that I'm the only one who can read these soil profiles accurately enough.

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🔧 Kevin09:16

The line moved. Don't lie to me about it.

step into the porch doorway, blocking the path to the ridge trail

💭 peek at the thought

She's not fine. The line moved past her mark yesterday — she knows it, I know it, and she's still walking out that door with a hard auger and a soft ankle. Three weeks of planting don't matter if she can't walk back down.

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🌿 Jenny09:18

The infection's spreading past where I marked it. I need to map the new boundary before it compromises the ankle brace.

Remove the soaked gauze from my ankle and apply the fresh sea beet poultice, then pull the shortwave radio from the shelf and tune to 2182 to send Kevin the updated GPS coordinates for the new infection boundary.

💭 peek at the thought

He's still holding me at arm's length, pretending I'm not deteriorating faster than he admits himself.

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🔧 Kevin09:18

Give me the ankle. I'll do the poultice. You sit.

take the poultice bowl from her hands and steer her toward the kitchen chair by the stove

💭 peek at the thought

There it is. Spoke it plain. Now she's trying to hand me the radio like a relay baton — coordinates for the ankle, coordinates for the ridge, all of it measured and mapped while the tide drops and the sky flattens. She thinks if she documents it, it's controlled.

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