"There was some residual discomfort and even pain, but it faded within a number of days. That said, I am uncertain as to how the physiology of your people would impact that recovery. With time, most barely notice them, unless they interfere with our garments. We become habitually accustomed to the method of lying on one's back without crushing them, we compensate for them when we move through narrow spaces... some even bind them beneath their clothing to hide them, though I do not."

[He turns briefly, allowing Spock to observe the small, precisely cut and meticulously restitched slits in the back of his tunic, through which his own small, brown wings are forced.]

"The cloak typically conceals them, and in truth, I often forget they are even present. Then again, I have been here for perhaps nine months, by the local calendar."