Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

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 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.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.