“What if the pressure’s too much—if they starve, or are driven into shallower waters and unravel the whole chain?”

“Hmm,” Ray furrowed his brow, contemplating the delicate balance of the oceanic ecosystem, mentally charting the layers of oceanic collapse. “If the bottom of the food chain dwells on the ocean floor,” she said, thinking it through as she spoke, “and everything else grows from there...what’ll happen to the marine life already adapted to those ocean pressures? what happens when you change the pressure they evolved under?” “What if they can’t reach the bottom to feed?” she whispered, fear catching in her eyes. “What if the pressure’s too much—if they starve, or are driven into shallower waters and unravel the whole chain?”