Shane answers “I just finished and the ending was so...”

Rebecca Erickson asked this question about Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1):

I just finished and the ending was so confusing! Why did the siren in the tank tell the rest of the school to go away? Why were the leftover sirens in the swimming pool sluggish? How was the female related to Heather's death? Everything in the book is so over-explained to have it end so suddenly.

Shane 1) Because the captive siren sort of became friends with the scientists. Or maybe because it knew it needed the scientists in order to escape, so basi…more1) Because the captive siren sort of became friends with the scientists. Or maybe because it knew it needed the scientists in order to escape, so basically it was saying, "Buzz off, I need them to think I'm their friend so they would let me free. If they die, I'm stuck."

2) According to the book, the ones outside the pool were sluggish because their gills dried up. The ones in the pool were sluggish because the pool wasn't deep enough. Yeah, 'm confused by that too. I thought they just need water and oxygen to convert food into energy.

3) Only the female had enough power to punch a hole through Heather's submersible.

"The impact from above was enough to drive the submersible more than ten meters down before Heather had fully registered that she’d been hit."

After that, the males probably ate her or fed her to the female.(less)

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Rebecca Erickson Looked to me like the sirens were otherwise very willing to sacrifice themselves for the group/for the female which they depend on for making more sir ...more
Oct 13, 2019 03:45PM · flag

Shane No problem. I'm guessing that if the sirens are an intelligent species and capable of independent thought, then there might be individuals who operate ...more
Oct 13, 2019 07:57PM · flag

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