the keeper's cottage · day 957 · night

NIGHT 957

The rain tapers to a steady drizzle as you sit inside the cottage. You prepare the first dose of doxycycline for Jenny while the tide laps higher against the dock pilings.

Kevin uses the radio to confirm the supply boat arrival while the air remains heavy and still. Jenny remains bedridden, struggling with the spreading heat in her calf as she reads the letter from Tom.

🌿 Jenny11:47

Jenny, the doxycycline. Take this with water from the tap.

Hand her the antibiotic blister pack while standing, careful not to shift my weight onto the infected ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

The infection's spreading faster than the antibiotics can reach it. I can see the heat radiating off her calf even through the gauze.

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🔧 Kevin11:48

Sit down first. Elevate the leg. Full mug.

set the blister pack on the table, fill a tin mug from the tap, and hold it out to her

💭 peek at the thought

She's standing on it. Weight-bearing means the infection tracks faster up the lymphatics. She needs to sit, elevate, and take the full dose with a full mug of water — not a sip.

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🌿 Jenny11:49

I know. Thanks.

Take the mug with a shaky hand and lean back against the chair, propping my ankle up on a stack of pillows.

💭 peek at the thought

I'm too tired to even argue about the height. My leg feels like it's in a vice.

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🔧 Kevin11:49

Rest now. I'll check the ankle in four hours, swap the poultice.

pull the blanket up over her legs and set the storm lantern on the table beside the mug

💭 peek at the thought

Good. She's taking it seriously now. The shake in her hand could be fever or exhaustion — probably both. Fourteen days of doxycycline, twelve of metronidazole. First dose down. Need to watch the clock for the next one and keep the poultice rotating.

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🌿 Jenny11:51

Don't let it get too cold.

Close my eyes and try to ignore the rhythmic heat in my calf.

💭 peek at the thought

Four hours is an eternity when your skin is throbbing like this. I just want the pain to stop screaming.

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🔧 Kevin11:51

It won't.

check the wood stove, add a split of spruce kindling, and settle into the chair by the radio with the dry bag in reach

💭 peek at the thought

The rain's easing. Barometer held steady at 994. Supply boat tomorrow high tide if the captain keeps his word. Tonight I watch the ankle, the tank, the radio windows. And the letter in the dry bag.

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🌿 Jenny11:53

The poultice is still in the kitchen, by the window.

Reach as far as I can toward the kitchen doorway, fingers brushing the cool linen of the window curtain.

💭 peek at the thought

The stove is already roaring, but I can feel the damp creeping into my bones.

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🔧 Kevin11:53

I'll get it.

walk to the kitchen, scoop the poultice from the bowl with a clean spoon, return and gently unwrap the gauze from her ankle

💭 peek at the thought

She's burning up and reaching for a poultice she can't reach. The sea beet-mint-honey mix is on the kitchen counter by the window — fresh batch from this evening. I need to get it on her ankle before the heat drives the infection deeper.

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