In the morning, Caydance and Griff desired to walk to Fisherman's Wharf and eat breakfast crepes on a bench looking over the harbor, but it was only a few days before Huygens' first away game. He needed to be on campus, and Caydance had planned to walk to Thrift Town and show images of the music box to the staff.

On the way to Thrift Town, she remembered how a few days before their wedding -- on the today-not-taken walk to Fisherman's Wharf -- she had been wearing an early summer yellow cotton dress imprinted with blue flowers. It was a day when her skirt flowed as she walked, and the man beside her was the only man whom she had ever wanted to marry. But at that time, marriage seemed more comfortable in the distant future. Like maybe next year. It was Griff who broke the silence. "Everything is perfect the way it is. But all my friends from my player's life are married. And all the coaches I know are married."

"In my world, the only women I know who want to get married are Cory and Tiara, and sadly they are not legally entitled to get married," she replied. "Too many changes are happening at once." At that time, a few nights apart in their separate worlds had seemed like a good idea, but now, again he was gone.