Mild Curse: You can gift animals with human intelligence and the ability to communicate with you. It will reduce their lifespan by half and they'll know what you did.

I dunno if this is really a curse. I've played Warframe, I know not to gift any animals with human intelligence. That's how you end up giving them human depression.

The shortest lifespan of a bug is held by the female American sand-burrowing mayfly (Dolania americana), which lives for less than five minutes as an adult.

So I’ll give all of them human intelligence. Yes. I’m evil.