Benjen ran off to keep playing with Peter with that occasional pestering Mom for something. Beyond that, she had time to relax a bit and she seized the opportunity with a glass of her favorite wine.
"You have a very, lovely place, Erik," she complimented as she scanned around where she stood. She admired how he kept a clean home. She knew from experience that being a working, single parent wasn't easy. Quietly, she really found it to be attractive.
"I never got the chance to ask. Where did you send that other patient?"
She gave a light sigh and a soft yet straight face. The subject was going to come up eventually.
"I sent him to Med Force One," she began as she sat in a chair across from him, crossing her legs while placing her drink in her lap. Her right hand was wrapped around the stem of the wine glass, her left resting on the arm of the chair.
"There's no way I can explain this without a story. I sent him there because aboard Med Force One is the premier burn center, at least, that I know of, in Sirius. It was born in a system that has seen nothing but fighting, fighting between Corsairs, Mollies, Bounty Hunters, Outcasts, Bretonians and Lord only knows who else," she explained. "When I interned there, I saw on a constant basis the end result of these wars. People like the man I sent were an everyday occurrence. Men and women burned beyond recognition, missing limbs or worse. That is the environment I interned in."
She took a sip of her wine and continued, her face professional in appearance, "The Burn Ward. It got to a point where skin graphs weren't enough and nanite therapy was but in it's infancy. Now, I don't know where John got it but he was given a machine by someone who cared. He named it the Rejuvenator."
She put her glass down and uploaded a picture on Erik's datapad for him to see.
"It's a crude picture and it may look simple but what it does is simply amazing," she explained. "The patient lies on the slab totally naked and asleep. The overhead bar slowly passes over the body over the course of several hours and it completely reconditions the burned or even severely scarred skin to like new condition. The patient cannot move for twenty four hours or deformities in the skin will show."
She sat back and continued, "John only used it in severe cases for two reasons. One, people who were burned beyond recognition, like our pilot. The other? The power demands on the system are extreme so he has to shut down a lot of systems to use it. But the end result will be worth it so that is why I sent our pilot there."
She then cracked a light smile. "There are only two known in existence. One of which you now know about, the other was at Canaria Medical but we couldn't get the power set up to make it functional. I expressed an interest in it and um......seeing the Crayter technology here, um.....perhaps we could make it work?"
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