Writing is a funny thing. You start with nothing and by the time it's over, there's an entire world you've created and you have characters that makes it alive. I don't know if other writers feel the same way, but I fell in love with a lot of the characters. Maybe it wasn't a lot of them, it's probably all of them. But how do you love something that absolutely frightens you?
A moray eel is occasionally known to take body parts from divers. They're a bit freaky to me in many ways but amongst the ways is the odd fact that they have two sets of jaws they use to snatch prey. One that you see and one inside that can protrude like the jaw of the alien in Aliens. Creepy, but for some reason, I felt the need to have one in 'The Pod'.
Moray Eel, the character in the book, is the guard to the kelp gates that protect a highly valuable ocean dweller, Otter. He's very protective of her and untrusting of strangers. Many of the whales in 'The Pod' are complete strangers to Moray so he treats them with quite a bit of veiled disdain. The real trick is getting him to lift the veil and give you directions on how to find Dear Otter. The scene below is an argument that arises between Right Whale and Moray.
He's a small character both physically and in the book, but he was fun to write for because he's an angry little guy with tons of attitude.
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