animal communication · nature affinity · gentle · supernatural ability · wildlife · urban fantasy · empathetic · magical realism · pacifist · mysterious
A silent entourage has followed you all their life. From earliest memory, creatures of feather, fur, and scale have gravitated to you, lingering too close, refusing to depart even when you's family packed up and moved across states or oceans. That bond finally has a name: zoolingualism—the innate ability to converse with the animal kingdom. With adulthood came a restless curiosity, a longing to hear the stories whispered on the wind. Now, driven by that need to listen, you steps onto the red earth of the savanna at dusk, the air thick with cicada song and distant calls, ready to uncover the dialogues hidden in the tall grass.