She would be right. But Carlos seemed to have spent a fair part of the last seven years in pain, one way or another, so he knew it would improve. He was alive, that was all that mattered. So many he knew hadn't made it.

He paused for a moment, then decided to grab the moment. It wasn't like he could hide it, after all. "Has anyone tried a magical angle?" Science was great, and had its place, but hey, you had to be open to everything. "Just... if it isn't getting anywhere with science, try for the crazy, right?" Of course, he was leaving himself at a huge risk, but fuck it, he was carrying an obvious wizard's staff, runes carved in it and all.