Rachel's Clothing In Crocodile Pit In The Reaction

[Tim Bruening]

Paperback The Reaction: PP 13-16: Rachel jumps into a crocodile pit to rescue a boy who had fallen in.  She lands inches away from a giant crocodile.  It charges her, and she acquires it.  Seconds later, she morphs the crocodile.  But what happened to her outer clothing (which the Animorphs can't morph)?  She wouldn't have had time to take it off before morphing, which means that it should have gotten shredded.  But Rachel says nothing about the fate of her outer clothing.  If it got shredded, why didn't she say so (after all, she is very interested in clothing)?  If it DID morph with her (possible due to her allergic morphing), why didn't she mention that in tones of utmost amazement?

If Rachel did lose her outer clothing during her morph, then when she demorphed, she would have been reduced to her leotard.  Why no mention of zoo security gawking at her leotard?  Why no mention of zoo security finding her shredded clothing in the pit?

[Chad32]

The plot needed to focus on the fact that Rachel had to morph an animal in public to save someone. She may have legitimately forgotten about it, and the book is narrated by her, so no mention of shredded clothes and a leotard. I forget if any other animorph was with her to try to cover her tracks by retrieving the shredded clothing somehow.

[Tim Bruening]

The plot needed to focus on the fact that Rachel had to morph an animal in public to save someone. She may have legitimately forgotten about it, and the book is narrated by her, so no mention of shredded clothes and a leotard. I forget if any other animorph was with her to try to cover her tracks by retrieving the shredded clothing somehow.

Cassie was with Rachel at the zoo that day.

When Rachel morphed the Croc, she described the morph in some detail, so I believe that she should naturally have described the effect the morph had on her clothes!