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- The man's flesh looked as raw as it had when she'd found him the first time, out in the desert; the skin that he had lost in the Sarlacc's digestive tract was replaced now with a transparent membrane, linked to tubes trickling fluids from the wall of machines alongside the bed. "What's this?" She touched the clear substance; it felt cold and slick. "Sterile nutrient casing." SHΣ1-B reached out and made a slight adjustment to one of the equipment controls. "It's what we normally use on severe burn victims, when there has been major epidermal loss. When we were in the service of the late Jabba the Hutt, we saw and treated a lot of burns."
- "Explosions," said le-XE.
- "Just so." SH1-B lifted part of its carapace in an approximation of a humanoid shrug. "The kind of persons who worked for Jabba-the rougher sort of his employees-they were always blowing themselves up, one way or another."
- "Turnover. High rate."
- "That's true; there were always some we just couldn't put back together. But le-XE did get rather skilled at burn-treatment protocols. This individual's somatic trauma, however, is a little different." SH1-B scanned over the unconscious figure. "No one, as far as can be recalled from our memory banks, has ever survived even temporary ingestion by a Sarlacc. So we're doing the best we can, with what we've got." Neelah glanced over at the medical droid. "Is he going to live?"
- "Hard to tell. An exact prognosis for this patient is difficult to make, due to both the severity and the unusual nature of his injuries. It's not just the epidermal loss; le-XE and I have determined that there was also exposure to unknown toxins while he was in the Sarlacc's gut. We've attempted to counteract the effects of those substances, but the results are uncertain.
- If we had access to records of other such humanoid-Sarlacc encounters, the probability of his survival could be calculated. But we don't. Though just on a
- personal basis"-SHΣ1-B's voice lowered, a simulation of confidentiality-
- "I'm surprised that this individual is still alive at all. Something else must be keeping him going. Something inside him."
- The droid's words puzzled her. "Like what?"
- "I don't know,” replied SHΣ1-B. "Some things are not a matter of medical knowledge. Not the kind I have, at any rate."-Chpt.3 pg.32
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