By the time Megara had initiated Mr. Hawk so well into her magic for turning statues into people
and back again that he would remember the simple ritual even when not quite sober,
no one was quite sober,
not even Megara herself.
As she had previously told him,
it was really a bang-up trick
and not so difficult to master if taken without applejack.
With his own discovery and Meg’s magic literally at the tips of his fingers,
Hunter Hawk,
with an emotion of exultation not entirely unbeholden to applejack,
felt himself well-equipped to face a new and eventful life. (64)
