The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XV - Portentosum Mare

In which a beleaguered vessel, the Matutina, is driven by tempest and treacherous currents toward the perilous shores of Aurigny, a land guarded by nature’s most fearsome maritime sentinels, where the sea’s tumultuous moods alternately promise ruin and a fragile hope. The desperate souls on board endure the sinister play of wind and wave, clinging to life amid the storm’s cruel caprices, caught between the near certainty of disaster and the fleeting mercy of deliverance.