User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2015/@comment-24422626-20150616073352

Kick: We don't know who sent him back. He literally washed up on the beach. As for what he's reported... he described his captors as "walking fish," and that he barely saw Lucid and Vega before his abductors decided he was useless.

* ''Kick passes Goldfin a photo. It shows a patch of Berhertz's skin, plucked clean of feathers. Splotched red in the middle, as if left there by a squid's cupped tentacles, is some sort of symbol: a ring with a tear-drop shape drawn through it.''*

...He was covered in them when he came back.