The storm had been sudden, a brutal, Biblical fury that ripped their small missionary boat from its moorings and flung it into the raging sea. Father Marcus, a man of faith but not of the sea, had clung to Sister Clara as the world turned to violent, salted chaos. When the dawn broke calm and cruel, they were alone on a crescent of sand, their vessel shattered against black rocks, their supplies gone, their world reduced to this: two souls, soaked and shivering, clad in the heavy, salt-stiffened wool of their vows.The first day was silence, a desperate search for shelter, for fresh water. They found a shallow cave, a trickle from a rock. The second day was hunger, a gnawing emptiness that made the strictures of their lives feel like distant, absurd echoes. On the third night, the cold bit deep. The cave offered scant protection from the tropical chill that followed the storm. They huddled, back-to-back for modesty at first, but the shivering was uncontrollable.“Forgive me,” Marcus w
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