Lothur and his group had guessed that the problem with these animals was some being trying to manipulate them in some way.
That was being done through some kind of evil art, which weakened during the day and grew stronger at night.
Perhaps because of this, during the day when this evil art was weakened by day, those animals were in a lethargic state, the typical sign of those under the control of others at 'rest' time.
At night, when such art was at its strongest, they would be fully under the control of the enemy and demonstrate the more energetic behavior Seizer had described.
Lothur knew all this since he had been studying darkness and evil ever since he achieved resistance to an element of this nature. So when he returned from his brief afternoon training with Elke, he soon began to pay attention to those animals.
