#fenixtj

"Senora Maria is a kitchen witch!" She claps her hands in delight. "Please please, por favor. I will do the scrubbing so that you can make more magic. I can just watch and learn, I will be no trouble at all."

Big eyes!

"Woooowwwww."

"mmm if you think a cook is less than other things you are needing lessons I am thinking" Maria says "Very well, we will try it. But you must learn not to think that cooking, cleaning, these things are not for idiotas, they take knowledge as well as muscle.. how to do it right. How not to give up. T here is a magic to the hearth, no? You must not just work the foods and the cooking and the cleaning but learn how to make the people so used to the clean they barely notice, what food they love best... how to use it to cheer them. It is the DEEP magic, senoritas... the magic of home away from the home. The king's crown maybe where the power of rule rests, but the cook's kitchen is where the true heart of the kingdom... for famila forms about it...and all goes from there. You understand this, Salma? I teaching you ANCIENT Secrets here"

Her eyes wide. "Siiiii."

By now other pots and pans are floating their way to the sink and dunking themselves. Sponges moving as the wooden spoon moves like a conductor's baton. "Beuno. And you ot her girls may learn too, but one at a time, and only with Rosalita or I nearby. " A firm nod "Now.. Let me get the book of reciepies, and find this Cake de Carrot"

"Si..." Ellie is distracted by the dancing pots.

"Do you think we'll find the grey stuff?" She whispers to Ariel and Ellie, also entranced.

Ariel gapes "It's like the Beast's castle in here" She whispers

"Mucho magic."

And Maria researches while the pots and pans clean.She directs Salma to help get ingredients, shows her what to do.. and the girls are told later that later , there will be carrot cake.

Salma will help! She resists the urge to see what would happen if the sugar were swapped with the salt - maybe that science is for another time.

Oh yes. First learn the system.. the better to destroy it later! mwhahaha

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