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I followed her in a high speed chase. We dove faster than any submarine can, and withstood the pressure flawlessly with our huge bodies. I galloped fast under the waters as if I was descending a declining trail. The sight would have surely been silly to anyone mortal that could see. Ahead, the Dragon slowed down, winding through the waters. I saw she had stopped at somewhere near the seafloor here, and I approached closely to see what.
When I approached, I saw a great coral reef below. I saw it was dead.
Shennu hovered above it, and I saw the glistening of a tear falling from her eyes, trickling down until it hit the bed of that reef. Life was briefly restored, and the coral that was bleached like bone grew yellow once more. It was alive and well.
...only to die again immediately, turning back bleached and rocky like basalt...
[SHENNU] "Their actions killed it. Their actions are going to kill it all. I am a deity, but I have never felt so powerless in my life, Qilin named Muna. I have raged, perceiving that I would be able to stop it by force... by direct divine intervention, but I have only exacerbated these offenses."
[SHENNU] "My last resort would be to wipe clean the shores with a megatsunami, and doing so would only make the Final War that much worse. I would only be doing what He who is Us would want me to do. I would instigate war against other gods. I would cause only terror in a bid to punish them."
[SHENNU] "I can do nothing. The ocean will die with me."
'Mortals are doing this?'
The Dragoness swiveled to the side and lurked forward. I trotted behind her as we came closer to even deeper parts of the seafloor. It was there I noticed that an eerie red mist had began to take over. The bottoms of the ocean floor were being corrupted by this fiendish mist, and I knew where it had came from.
Shennu's attention had focused upon something luminous in the rough.
