Mamba Slime

"What's that?" Asked Adian Stammler.
"Mamba slime. Grows here."
"Is it dangerous?"
"No, the opposite. Your kind use it as medicine."
"My kind?"
"Meritocrats?"
"Oh, them."
"They not Terrans, like you?"
"Yeah, I guess you can call them Terrans."
"What are they?"
"They're terrans, just... Let's just say they're not as welcome back home as they think."
"Home?"
"On birthsphere, on Terra."
"Ah, I hear them say this word, it is like Meadhall for Oookla. It is holy place."
"Well, Terra doesn't think they're holy enough?"
The huge humanoid harrumphed, or so it sounded, but from his eyes, Adian could tell, he was laughing. "They defective?"
"They... Too many, too alike."
"Ah, yes, Oookla no like either, when you see like a whole family of siblings all the same age..."
"Yes, and have you seen the skulls?"
"Not just happen to your people, that. Tlalor make glittery skulls of Oooklah too."
"Oh, anyone know why?"
"Tlalor say it honour their gods, according to Oookla wise."
"What, making people into stone honours their gods?"
"No, and Tagimi no wise one, but hear the Tlalor worship their gods by causing pain. So much that hey consider Mamba Slime unholy, because it helps cure pain and illness and injury."
"If you had someone turn to glitterskull, and you had enough Mamba Slime, shiny and fresh, you could heal them back... It would take Oookla's Slime Output for a whole day, the entire sunsystem, but it could be done."
"How many hospitals would go without, then?"
"All of them in Oookla system, Adian is wise... Sees flaw in this cure. But Tlalor still insulted, still try to destroy Mamba Eel if find it. Only attack sentients, and Mamba Eels, that Tagimi know."

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Biomaterial