When writing this story, I always think of Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, who crossed the sea several times to conquer the island nation of Japan, but was unexpectedly defeated by wind, waves and sinking sand. A happy family seemed to be out of reach for me, but the new life I had started died prematurely in the "divine wind". The battleships on the sea turned into wrecks and eventually sank to the bottom of the sea. . .
