Sea Foam and Silence

*She warned of the pain. She did.

But no warning can prepare you.

Nothing can.*

Long, long ago, a little mermaid became intrigued by the way tall-crabs don't act at all like the prey she's more comfortable chasing. Her quest to understand will take her places she had never dreamed possible - onto land and beyond the endless cold.

But quests always come with a price and hers is no exception. If she cannot find love within a year, she'll become sea foam. With only a month left and no closer to understanding 'love' at all, what is Maris to do? Tall-crabs - humans - are confusing and contradictory and love comes in so many forms, how can she ever know which one is *right* to win her life amidst friends and family on land?

Fantastical worldbuilding meets verse novels in this queerplatonic retelling of *The Little Mermaid*, the first story in a series of queer fairytale retellings.