The learned monks who catalogued this specimen insisted it appeared only during liminal hours, when the boundary between codex and creation grew thin. Composed of coral & tide, the Heraldic Pattern Beast was observed near the The Mappa Mundi, Hereford, though its true habitat may lie in dimensions the medieval mind had no geometry to describe. It has been faithfully preserved in heraldic blazon, though the original scribe is said to have wept upon completing it.
