Nodding, Cristiano wait for a wave to pass before he released himself from Banshee's back and gave a sort of playful salute to his friend before plummeting to the ocean's surface. He met the surface with as lease resistance as possible, arms above his head with pointed hands and a straight body to follow. Rejoining with the sea was like a having a cool drink of water on a hot summer's day--for a terragog analogy, anyway. He circled around and then started to swim toward the dark patch before coming to a halt.
Fish float in the water on their backs, eyes void of life. A clear trail of whatever the blackness was seeped up through a series of cracks in the earth. Cristiano felt his stomach turn over with horror. Even the coral already looked pale, not quite bleached, and the merman's heart wept.
Turning, he head toward the rocks to meet up with Jake and broke the surface when he neared. "Do you recognize that?" he asked, hopeful the man before him might know what it was. "It comes from the ocean floor! Like some sort of....flesh wound bleeding." He frowned deeply, dark brown eyes cast aside. "I've heard of natural oil leaks but never like this."