alchemy

 

Salt: The turning of seasons belongs to duty not glory. Likewise every king becomes a killer before they are crowned.

Sulfur: What happened in that room taught you that neither wisdom nor ignorance could protect you.

Mercury: Autumn trembled at what she had done and the May Queen shivered through the pain and this was all that was left of the summer flesh come that September's dawn.

 
Brian Shaughnessy