Tempered Tools

Like any other tool in life it can make and break things. The way you wield it, and, more importantly, it wields you, is how it drives the direction of things.

Used well, it makes something good even stronger, something weak, strong. Misuse it, and even the strongest of bonds can be broken. Aqua regia pails in the way it dissolves strength.

And then of course, as the molecule splits into two nascent atoms, sometimes there will never be enough turtles.