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Blue blood & green bile

Eleanor Konik
Jul 18, 2022
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I was working on an urban fantasy story years ago that featured elves, and I went pretty far down the rabbit hole on dangerous iron could be to them — including the iron in most terrestrial blood. I discovered that some animals have copper-based blood instead, and it has some neat tradeoffs that eventually inspired the winged, lactating egg-layers I tal…

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