I can, if appropriately supplied. What does your merchant usually have available?

[Alucard had to learn to cook as a child. His diet was too specialized for him to be without the skill, as Dracula wasn't going to and his mother expected that there would be times in their lives where they would be far from each other. Boat cooking is very different, but it's still a skill to have.

Real food, proper real food made in a house, probably would get at Hector's heart if Alucard had the opportunity. That won't be happening, and so Alucard simply walks over to the makeshift table. It's easy enough to use his nails to crack the hard bread into smaller pieces and to shred the jerky.

Yes, he's shredding the jerky to put it on the bread so it can have a little bit of flavor. Sue him.]

That's fine. The spell works, and I feel safer having to physically hand over the command every sunrise.

[It keeps things above board. Even.]

Mmm. They're one potential route ahead, I believe.