"Potions like ..always promise more than they can deliver on. Even with willpower added, they could will fall short." He was parroting his mother now, a woman who didn't trust liquid solutions.

"Can you go back to the people that helped you? Get another one for free, with hopes of that being good enough? I wouldn't, because I don't know what damage I'd be doing to myself, but it's your body, so your solution."