*Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunement)*
This polished ash-wood flute is decorated with a spiral of yellow and red lacquer. Its music has an oddly compelling tone.
The flute has **3 Charges** and regains **1d3 expended Charges** daily at dawn.
**Rodent Tongue.** While holding the flute, you can communicate with rodents (such as rats, mice, and squirrels) as if you shared a language. You have advantage on Charisma checks made to influence such creatures.
**Gathering of the Gray.** You can use a **Magic Action** to play a trilling melody on the flute. Nonhostile **Tiny rodents** within **300 feet** of you that can hear the music move toward you by the most direct route and gather in your space or within 5 feet of you. The rodents remain for as long as you continue to take a Magic Action on each of your turns to play the flute.
**Spellcasting.** You can use a **Magic Action** to expend **1 Charge** to cast *animal messenger* from the flute. The spell’s target must be a rodent.