The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
