"Ah, sorry!" Cris apologized to Banshee and Jake as he hung there. "Didn't mean to startle you. Just takes a lot of oomph to get up here." He chuckled and started to pull himself up before gladly taking Jake's hand. He weighed quite a bit, considering he was a half-man of muscle and then half-fish of even more tightly packed muscle and the heft of scales.
"I'll be better when I know what's going on over there. And you come shoaling with me! I've missed it." He grinned.