"Your blood... it is copper? Liquid copper?"

"No. It is blood, with hemoglobin structured around copper. Copper comprises less than half its mass."

"Ah. As blood, then, it has an unusual abundance of copper! ...But, as copper, I suppose one could say it is quite contaminated with blood."

"Quite so. Mine, perhaps, even more so than the blood of most of my kinsmen."

"So you are exceptional among a race of exceptional men? By the gods, tell me more!"

"It is nothing fanciful. Only that my copper content is slightly below average, due to my mixed heritage. At home, it has often been said that my blood is... impure."

"You, my friend, are extraordinary! Will you stay here with me for a time? To let me learn more about you?"

It was fortunate that Spock listened to his instincts at this moment.

It was, perhaps, the only reason he survived long enough to locate the time-travel device, and return unharmed to the twenty-third century.

He would not have escaped with his life from Ea-Nasir.

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