Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34114326-20180103201311/@comment-35502055-20180509010951

I think she can swim. She was screaming as she went to Atlantis because she was going down a scary whirlpool of death. Who wouldn't scream? Also, she doesn't scream every time she gets in the water. Sure, that part in Ravagog where the bridge broke was in water, but she screamed from the impact of the bridge collapsing, not the wave. There are many times where she voluntarily gets into the water without freaking out, like when she first joins the Black Swan and rides that Ekodon (Ecodon maybe? dunno) to the hidden hideout.

Also, I think that if she couldn't swim then Shannon Messenger would have added that in somewhere. For example, she might say something like "Sophie looked at the water and shuddered. Sure, she'd been to Atlantis before, but going down the whirlpool was scary. Even scarier than normal, considering she couldn't swim."

I just feel like if Sophie couldn't swim then Shannon Messenger would have mentioned it in the series, or have a small fear of the water which has never been expressed before.