Animal communication

"How did you know the slug was there?" Anowon asked, licking the juice off his thin fingers.

"The birds were waiting for its eye to poke through that hole - they told me", Nissa said.

"I did not see anything like an eye pop out of that hole", Sorin said.

"It would not have", Nissa said.

Why?

"Because the slug was dead", Nissa said. "Had been for days."

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In the Teeth of Akoum, Chapter 9