Rita tried swatting away Colleen's hand from the top of her head but she had already run past.  She shook her head but looked but at the younger witch and her familiar.  "Well, I drank a lot back where I was from.  I was a social drinker and... Eh, turned into a bad habit I guess.  Snakes said that there was a plane crash but I don't remember a thing." Rita mentioned with a shrug.

"So, uhh, what's this alchemy thing? I think I may have heard of it before.  Lead to gold thing? Or was there something about this fully metal guy?"  Her knowledge was rather sparse.  "Is it just you take something and turn it into something else?  Is it something you can learn easy?"  She had to ask, curious now that its been brought up.  Not like she had anything else to do at thr moment.  

Rita thrn looked at the bird woman, "You said something about her being your familiar.  What's a familiar exactly? Could I get one too?"  The goblin woman was very sure about this place, but it didn't hurt to ask, right?  The one thing she had an idea about was Necromancy but only from context clues.  Probably some sort of magic about death?