While touching the bone of a dead creature, you can create one of the following effects:

• The bone rotates to show the closest cardinal direction of its murderer. If it does not have a murderer or if the murderer is not within 1 mile, it rotates in a random direction.
• The bone briefly changes its color to predict when the creature died. The color can be deep red for a death less than a month ago, light red for less than a year, or no color change if it died more than a year ago.
• You learn if the creature died of old age, from an illness, or from poison. The spell cannot discern other causes of death.
• You learn the creature type and size of the creature.

If you cast this spell again on another bone of the same creature, the spell has no effect, and the bone crumbles to dust.