Thing is, he's pretty clearly not a trained conjurer at all. He looks like an ordinary Gridanian citizen! So if he was hearing the voices of elementals without any education in conjury (he's old enough to have missed the recent edict for children to be trained in conjury mentioned in the text of some levequests), he could very well be scared and uninformed regarding just what he's actually hearing. And because of the authority of the conjurers in Gridania regarding matters magical, they'd be the first people citizens would turn to for advice or help. He already suspects it's elementals, so he made the choice to go to the people who understand how elementals work better than the rest of the world.
And if he turns out to have a hearer's powers but no training, they're the best-equipped to teach him how to cope with hearing the voices of elementals and turn it to a blessing, rather than a curse.
I mean, we already know that hearers are born, not made, and that even a hearer who's been educated in conjury may not actually understand the nature of the voices they're hearing. It stands to follow that a born hearer with no education in conjury as a baseline would be even more bewildered by these voices than someone in the same boat as Sylphie or her mother, and would even (thanks to superstition) assume that the elementals were angry at them for no reason.
And if he turns out to have a hearer's powers but no training, they're the best-equipped to teach him how to cope with hearing the voices of elementals and turn it to a blessing, rather than a curse.
I mean, we already know that hearers are born, not made, and that even a hearer who's been educated in conjury may not actually understand the nature of the voices they're hearing. It stands to follow that a born hearer with no education in conjury as a baseline would be even more bewildered by these voices than someone in the same boat as Sylphie or her mother, and would even (thanks to superstition) assume that the elementals were angry at them for no reason.
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