"Control?"

Daphne looked at Hodge with a strange look, "You call this control?"

In front of the two of them lay a lone little round wooden stool, on which lay a thick pork leg, frozen a little stiff by the weather, but still fresh, at least on the outside, blood-streaked, not cured meat.

Daphne grabbed a pair of steel knives and forks from the table next to her, paced to the log bench with small steps, held the thick leg meat in place with a fork, and held the steel knife in the other hand to cut the whole leg in half from the middle, she picked up half of it with a fork, and pointed the cut of the meat at Hodge: "See clearly? You took so long to finally just roast the center of this meat, and you tell me again that this is called "I have been able to fully control my abilities"?"

Hodge's smile froze on his lips, and he defended himself with some embarrassment: "Actually, it doesn't take much time, maybe let me use it for a while and this piece of meat will be completely cooked." ”

"I don't doubt it, but that's what you're trying to say, to last so long, just to cook a piece of raw meat?" Daphne's pretty eyebrows raised slightly, her free hand raised in the air, and she snapped her fingers lightly, and the flames leaped out from between her fingers, and in a split second they jumped onto the piece of meat, and the flames fluttered into bursting flames, engulfing the whole raw flesh before disappearing.

The whole process took place in a short moment, and when the flames were gone, the surface of the meat had formed a layer of black burnt skin, and Daphne cut it again with a knife, and the meat at the section was completely white and oily, and the heat was wafting.

"Look, I was able to do this when I first woke up, but did I say that I had full control of power from the time I first awakened?"

"But you can't deny that I'm not going to be in catastrophic danger of losing control in the process of using my abilities now. He thinks it's important to make it clear, knowing that he couldn't even use his abilities freely until then.

"Before, you were able to occasionally burst out with surprising power. Devany shook her head, not satisfied, "But now that your abilities can be used stably, they are limited to a very low level, and in that respect you are regressing, or rather weakened. ”

"It's not that unbearable...... "Hodge spread his hands helplessly.

Whenever Daphne turns on the coaching mode, she always becomes extremely strict, and honestly it is quite a dampening enthusiasm for his fledgling enthusiasm.

"Then tell me what it can do? Based on observation, I speculate that your ability should be able to make the water in the target's body heat up and boil rapidly, so when you awaken the ability, I will feel the heat radiating from the inside of the body, which should be quite special and useful, because it can directly penetrate the inside of the action, and even evaporate the target's water directly, but the extent you can do it now may only make the other party feel a little warm in the body...... What is the use of coaxing people who come into contact for the first time?"

Hodge didn't answer, because he really hadn't thought of what it would be used for.

The atmosphere in the room was a little oppressive, which made Hera, who was standing between the two, feel restless, and hurriedly ran over and babbled at the two of them.

"Slow down, Hera. I couldn't get it. Hodge said.

Hera thought for a moment, pointed at Hodge, then at the meat in Daphne's hand, and then at her lips, making a gesture of eating.

"Eat...... Meat?"

Hera frowned and shook her head, repeating the action she had just done, only this time she added the action of holding her chin with both hands, her eyes slightly closed, and the corners of her mouth smiling after eating.

"Uh, I still don't understand, sorry. ”

Hodge had tried to guess the meaning of Hera's gestures and movements as much as he could, but because her gestures were purely self-created and had no system at all, it became very difficult to understand when the words to be expressed were complex to a certain extent.

Hearing his words, Hera began to become anxious, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she kept gesturing, and even jumped up several times to make him see more clearly.

But her anxiety made her movements very rapid and messy, which only made Hodge more and more confused.

"Don't rush, take your time. ”

Although Hodge said this, Hera obviously didn't listen, and still waved her arms quickly and gestured with complex and difficult gestures, she desperately wanted Hodge to understand what she meant, but she was quite annoyed that she couldn't convey it to the other party, and her little face became more and more red.

A hand gently rested on her shoulder, and when she turned to look, Daphne was already standing behind her, rubbing her fluffy hair dotingly, and whispered: "Write, little Hera, write what you want to say, I taught you how to write, remember?"

Hera's spiritual world suffered quite serious trauma due to everything she experienced during the awakening process, and this was not only manifested in the out-of-control sound blade storm in the awakening process, but also made her close herself to a certain extent, the innocent and ignorant Hera in the past was locked in the depths of memory forever, leaving only a new personality with almost no memory as a newborn, and some remaining instincts, such as familiarity with cooking, such as the instinctive fear of strangers, especially strangers wearing armor and riding horses......

She had a lot to learn from scratch, including some feminine intimacy, which Hodge naturally couldn't interfere with, so the task of teaching Hera was, of course, given to Daphne.

Considering that Hera could not speak, Devany began to teach Hera to know words a long time ago, teaching and practicing word by word, Hera often forgot, and Daphne took the trouble to patiently teach her to remember the forgotten words again.

Guided by Daphne's words, Hera showed a look of sudden realization, ran to the table to pick up the pen and paper, wrote something quickly, and then hurried back to Hodge with the paper, holding the writing high.

There are not many words on this piece of paper, and the words of different sizes and twists show that the owner of the handwriting has not been in contact with the words for a long time, and it is difficult to recognize, but compared to the gestures, it is much better.

Devany walked over and looked at Hera's words with Hodge.

"Meat...... Inside...... Ripe...... Delicious and more ...... Fire...... Scorched...... (Closing eyes and sticking out the tongue)"

Hodge regrouped the individual words in his mind and cautiously asked, "Are you saying that meat is easier to burn when it's roasted over fire, and it's better to cook it from the inside?"

Hera's face was full of joy, and she kept nodding her little head.

"Huh. His good mood returned at this moment, "It seems that my abilities are not useless, right, Hera?"

Hera nodded again.

Seeing this scene, Daphne covered her forehead and shook her head, sometimes sighing.

"You've been too accommodating to him, little Hera. ”

......

"What are these things?" Hodge asked, looking at the tall stack of square packages in the corner of the living room.

He woke up yesterday and was still a little weak, and after eating a bowl of pumpkin soup, he continued to lie down and sleep to recover his strength, and he didn't feel physically able to move until he woke up today, and he had just shown Daphne that he was finally able to control his ability to keep it from getting out of control, and now he saw this pile of things that were obviously not inferior to them.

"I didn't take it apart, but according to your subordinate, what's it called—Roque, Rocky, or Turnip?"

"You mean Rhodes?"

"It seems to be the name. He said they contained silk, cloth, fine furs, and ornaments. ”

"What did Rhodes do with these things for me?" Hodge was puzzled, Rhodes' small private vault had been used by Pollitner for his own use, and he didn't plan to return the money back, so where did Rhodes get the money to buy these packages?

"He said he didn't buy it. Devany took a bite of the apple and muttered, "Yes, these are gifts from others." ”

"Gifts?"

"It seems that it was sent by those chambers of commerce, tsk, are all human beings such a rudder-watching character?"

"Don't say you're not human...... Daphne. ”

"Actually, I have a very thin memory of the time before I became a witch, and I can't remember anything at all, so it's not a problem for me to say it. ”

"Okay, okay. ”

"You were still unconscious when they sent the things, and Hera and I didn't know what to do, and your man named Rhodes suggested that we put the things here first, and when you woke up, we would take care of them ourselves. ”

Devine glanced at him nonchalantly, and continued to eat the half apple in her hand, "What are you going to do, throw it away?"

"No, since it's all good, we'll take it generously. Hodge smiled and said, "Besides, if you return these things, some people will not even be able to eat and sleep." ”

"Hmm...... I don't know you people very well. ”

"You don't need to understand, and Hera doesn't need to, just leave these things to me. Hodge noticed that Devany was looking out the open window, and outside the window was the sunny street.

"Are you looking outside?"

"Hmm. Devany admits very bluntly, not shy away.

"Want to go out for a walk?" Hodge suggested.

Now that Blackstone is in his hands, the four guards who were watching them earlier will naturally evacuate under Harlow's orders, and both Daphne and Hera can go out and feel the truth of this town.

Even if the identity of their witches was known to others, Hodge was not worried.

Blackstone is the only way to communicate with the outside world, one Snow Eagle to Herbert and the other to the Outpost, both of which are under Hodge's control.

Even simply letting everyone in this town know their identities is the effect he wants to achieve.

"I went out once yesterday when you were asleep. ”

"How does it feel?"

"The street floor is dirty, there is a lot of oil, the soles of my shoes are a little slippery when I walk on the road, the air in the town is not very good, I can often smell the smell, there are not many people on the road, and the eyes that look at me are not trying to sleep or they are afraid of me. ”

"Ugh. Hodge choked on Devany's bluntness and hurriedly remedied, "This is just the beginning, and trust me, it won't be long before this town gets better." ”

Devany looked at him and shook her head, "You misunderstood. ”

"Although this town is not very good, and the townspeople are not friendly to me, this is the first time that I don't have to pretend that I am walking in a crowd, and I don't have to worry about smiling and pleasant conversational people stabbing me with hidden knives the next moment, and I don't have to worry about waking up and facing the pursuit of the magician. ”

"Originally, I always thought that witches didn't have to try to blend in with the crowd, we just had to huddle together to keep warm and protect each other. But experiencing what it's like to walk in a crowd, unexpected – it doesn't feel bad. ”

"Thank you, Hodge. Daphne had a serious glint in her eyes.

"Really?" he chuckled.

"That's good. ”