Outflow is the answer assuming that the underlined word is influx.
Answer:
She raises the stakes. Giving the audience someone else to care about increases the suspense level.
Explanation:
Conjunctive adverbs connect one clause to another clause, or one idea to another idea:
Joanne was very good at math; however, she is not good at English.
Descriptive adjectives can be separated with commas in a sentence such as:
Joanne did not want to pet the smelly, wet dog.
The characters are talking animals. Any other option would be logical and easy to explain, but talking animals don’t exist unless you consider a parrot. Nonetheless, the other options are logical and realistic while the last option is not at all realistic. Most children’s books are not realistic.