She strove to enchant her own children. For Daniel, she turned reefs into cities, salt marshes into suburbs, and kelp forests, seagrass meadows, estuaries, lagoons, and even the open ocean into habitats of interlocking design so intricate they would leave even the most brilliant civil engineer mute with awe. For Dora, she cast the oceans as the craziest imaginable fantasy populated with wild monsters and wilder heroes.
