"I will see to it that our droids attend to you, and keep your true species a secret. It will be easy enough to pass you off as a human-Rattataki hybrid." Even saying Legate was half-Chiss would be too risky.

Getting out his comm, Thrawn said into it, in Basic, "Doctor, prepare the medical bay, I want only droids working there until I say so." On the other side of the comm, the doctor gave the affirmative, saying that it would be ready shortly.

Looking back down at Legate, he returned to Sy Bisti, "We may leave when you feel like it."