Babel

But he had to try, really try, to make sure that he did not stop dreaming in his native tongue.

They had the keys to the kingdom; they did not want to give them back.

‘You’re in the place where magic is made. It’s got all the trappings of a modern university, but at its heart, Babel isn’t so different from the alchemists’ lairs of old. But unlike the alchemists, we’ve actually figured out the key to the transformation of a thing. It’s not in the material substance. It’s in the name.’