[Conversely, Lupin settled back in his hammock, determined to figure out where the best place to meet the Vulcan was.]

You mean the wings?

They're mostly useless, unfortunately. You can't fly with them, and they're really annoying. Even so, you don't want to mess with them too much. Completely removing both of them from the body can be fatal, and we haven't yet figured out why that works.

Some people suspect that they're responsible for making foreign languages automatically intelligible. We have people from many different worlds and cultures here, so any kind of translation effect helps.