The Siren

There's always room for love, meaning that your love for a family member, for example, isn't diminished because you're in love with someone. You can't change the past, but you can choose how you live today. Simply being alive isn't enough to be called living. You need to try things to find out what about the world is important to you. There's a kind of beauty in fulfilling your duty even if it's all you're capable of doing; eventually you'll be able to do more.

Shipwrecks and drowning are a prominent theme, and several are briefly described without gore. A past murder of a family, including an infant, is mentioned. Cautionary tales of past sirens who were disobedient being taken away, possibly to be experimented on or killed. Past physical and psychological abuse including beatings and attempted murder mentioned. One time Kahlen is in peril of being killed. Blood from an illness is mentioned once but not described.

Very rare use of "ass" and "damn."