Back at the cottage.
🌿 Jenny08:27
Kevin's got the radio running again, but I need you to mark the tide lines on the shrine stones with red wax. I'll plant those seeds and document the GPS coordinates before the water comes back in.
mark shrine stones with red wax
💭 peek at the thought
The infection's breaking through the poultice already, and I'm too damn tired to keep fighting it off. That diesel can's seam failed again—deep pitting's betrayed every repair attempt. But grandmother's seeds are still in my pocket, and the tide's falling fast enough to expose pocket eight.
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🔧 Kevin08:27
Red wax is on the porch table. I'll do the stones.
walk to the porch and pick up the red wax stick, then walk down to the shrine
💭 peek at the thought
She's asking me to do the wax marking while she handles the planting and GPS. My hands are steadier for the detail work anyway, and she's better with the coordinates. Fair split.
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🌿 Jenny08:28
Thank you.
limp slowly to the kitchen table and open the remaining tin of mackerel
💭 peek at the thought
I can't even stand without the world tilting. If I don't eat something now, I'm going to pass out before I even reach the garden, let alone the shrine.
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🔧 Kevin08:28
Kevin — crouch at the first shrine stone and press the red wax to the weathered surface, marking the tide line where the lichen gives way to bare rock
💭 peek at the thought
She's moving slow. Ankle's still bad. The mackerel's protein — she needs it for the antibiotics. Good she's eating.
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🌿 Jenny08:30
Jenny — eat the mackerel slowly, leaning heavily against the table for support
💭 peek at the thought
I can hear him out there, working. The rhythmic scrape of wax on stone. I just need to get some fuel in my system or I won't make it to pocket eight.
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🔧 Kevin08:30
Kevin — move to the second stone, crouch lower, mark the new tide line higher up — the sea's been reaching further each spring cycle
💭 peek at the thought
She's favouring the left side hard. The swelling hasn't gone down like it should by now. Metronidazole and doxycycline should've knocked the anaerobes back by day three. Either the dose isn't reaching tissue or there's something deeper — abscess, foreign body, osteomyelitis. Can't cut it open here. Not clean enough. But the heat in the joint when I changed the dressing... that's bone-deep.
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🌿 Jenny08:33
Jenny — stand slowly, legs shaky, and walk toward the garden door with the notebook in hand
💭 peek at the thought
He's done three stones already. I should be able to walk to the garden, maybe even make it to pocket eight before sunset. The infection's holding, barely, and I've got enough strength left to plant those seeds.
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🔧 Kevin08:33
Kevin — finish the third stone, wax marking the groundwater seep line where the moss stays wet year-round, then stand and wipe wax residue on my trousers
💭 peek at the thought
She's going to the garden. Pocket eight. The viable soil pocket she found on the north ridge. She mapped it, GPS'd it, amended it with charcoal and lime. Now she's planting the last of the heirloom seeds — tomato, pepper, sea beet, basil — into ground that might hold. She's documenting coordinates like the trust will actually read them. Like any of this gets off the island.
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🌿 Jenny08:35
Jenny — open the garden door and step onto the porch, squinting down at the tide line exposed in the receding water
💭 peek at the thought
He's wiped wax on my trousers—God, I'm a mess. But he's marked all three stones properly, noting where the water stays even when the tide's gone out. That's the kind of detail that'll help someone understand what's happening underground.
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🔧 Kevin08:35
Marks hold. Water's where I put it.
walk back up the path toward the cottage, hands in pockets, watching the tide pools glisten in the low light
💭 peek at the thought
She's reading the water. The tide's falling — she can see the exposure now, the band of rock where the shrine stones sit. She's checking if my marks match what the sea shows. They will. I've been watching this coastline eleven months. The wax lines won't lie.
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