An important fact about Rennuid Tathviel is that he is Too Curious, and will often ignore common sense to do shit.
Common sense like very well knowing animals chattering to each other isn't often really his business, and if it was MEANT to be his business, he would have been gifted with a natural affinity for understanding the voices of nature like several people in his immediate family had been.
Fucking around with things that aren't his business has objectively ruined tens of lives. He knows this. Objectively.
....
Rennuid looks left, then right, sees the coast is clear... then takes three fresh red flower petals out from the sash at his waist, twists them together into a ball until the life inside them has dampened his fingers, and quietly speaks some Forbidden Words under his breath.
The spell waits, invisible, at his fingertips. At this point, it is too late. Somebody is about to have some Forbidden hidden knowledge.
....
He lightly touches his adam's apple, and for the next hour, will know all words, he hears. ]
Re: animal hours
An important fact about Rennuid Tathviel is that he is Too Curious, and will often ignore common sense to do shit.
Common sense like very well knowing animals chattering to each other isn't often really his business, and if it was MEANT to be his business, he would have been gifted with a natural affinity for understanding the voices of nature like several people in his immediate family had been.
Fucking around with things that aren't his business has objectively ruined tens of lives. He knows this. Objectively.
....
Rennuid looks left, then right, sees the coast is clear... then takes three fresh red flower petals out from the sash at his waist, twists them together into a ball until the life inside them has dampened his fingers, and quietly speaks some Forbidden Words under his breath.
The spell waits, invisible, at his fingertips. At this point, it is too late. Somebody is about to have some Forbidden hidden knowledge.
....
He lightly touches his adam's apple, and for the next hour, will know all words, he hears. ]