[ What Viktor says clicks something into place for Hilda. She had never asked about the particular details about Viktor's surgery; asking seemed a little rude and it wasn't like she could have begun to grasp the details of it. Why wouldn't a lung transplant be possible here with everything else she had encountered in Abraxas? Said procedure being illegal had never once crossed her mind.

All of the work that Jayce and Viktor did that she knew of had been good, even the bit with the trackers from an objective point of view (and so long as she didn't worry herself sick over Blake's fate). After a beat she lets out a breath looking oddly serious for someone like her. ]

Even if it was important, it sounds like a super dumb, risky thing for someone so smart to do. [ Then she reaches across the table to lightly grasp his hand, a genuine smile flickering to her face. ] But I'm glad the risk paid off. [ The alternative is too awful to consider. ] Was the problem that they thought it wouldn't work?