Nathaniel's quiet for a few moments, wrestling with his words. He's old enough - sophisticated enough - to know what he wants to say is the sort of thing dismissed by people in power. But as different as the fields are, Hilbert is one of the first people to speak the words he's wanted to hear from someone else.

"When I was first taken as an apprentice, I didn't understand the opportunity I'd been given." It is rather embarrassing that, at age five, he hadn't understood how lucky he was to have been given away by his parents. "But I learned that if I worked my hardest to become a good magician, I'd be able to help people. That's what it's all for." That's why he'd given up his life. "But the higher you go, the more a lot of people just care about serving themselves. And to get anywhere you have to compromise and work for people who don't try to help and don't deserve your work. And it's a lot more mixed up then I saw it as a child.

"But having come up with something that can cure people, that can help so much - that's something amazing. Even if it takes more time than it should, because of how other people try to use it, it's still more than most people will ever do."