North of Santa Cruz, out the window of Griff's beach house, a small boat sailed on the Pacific Ocean. Crossing Caydance's field of vision as if it was a distant seen-and-then-not-seen mirage, it passed so rapidly that it called to mind not the more solidly painted images on the music box, but one of the gold-enclosed sea travel-resonant paintings in the pages of the Book of Hours -- where sea creatures swam in gilded insets, and aboard a medieval fishing boat, an unusual version of the Miraculous Catch of Fish occupied a separate page.
Inset into the Book of Hours, the other miraculous vessel she remembered was not a conventional boat. Roped to a staff, a monk's cloak served both as a hull and as a sail. Carrying a monk and two companions, this craft moved quickly towards a distant shore, while in the water beside it, swam an iridescent trout.
Saint Francis of Paola, the Patron Saint of Mariners, Caydance recollected from art history iconography studies. But Francis of Paola, did not wear a halo in the Book of Hours. He was painted as a living man of the era.