Ice is for death and endings.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.
One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.