[Aetheas]

Knowing he won't have long to speak, he attempts to make his conversation short. The healer with a few short words and minor gestures activates one of his spells--to be able to properly communicate with the animal. "Firstly, let me say I don't have long, a minute tops, secondly apologize for not understand what you said earlier. Can you repeat?"

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Speak with Animals off the list for the day.

I'm not seeing a rail road yet. I've seen multiple diversions we could've done off of. One of us probably could've set fire to this tree and claimed it as attempting to rid the woods of the spiders, and reacting to a fear.
~shrugs~
But that's me, not the healer speaking.