The witches cottage has a huge cauldron in the middle of the cottage. There are shelves of glass jars that have things like spider legs, dragon toe nails, and fairy wings.  The floor is a dirt floor and the roof is made of wooden brooms.
The witches cottage, Outside Cottage
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I only mastered one spell in witch school. I can speak with inanimate objects. I use this spell in espionage. I work for the government.
We will need some of this to add to the cauldron. Smells funny but this is what makes the potion work. I shall get the pixie wings, it will be a most potent brew! I just love it when you keep me company. You are always such a big help. What else do you think should go in? This, the leg of a cursed pirate who was killed by a mermaid, but not in the way you might think. How did he die?! I would like to know that story. You tell the funniest stories. Well, it's not much of a story.  His other leg was a peg leg, and he tripped getting out of his ship while he was trying to chase a mermaid, and hit his head on the mermaid's rock.  The mermaid took pity on him, and took him to her home beneath the sea for her healers to help him get better.  But . . . he drowned, since mermaids live under the sea.  Not so much a funny story as a sad one. Ha! silly pirates! They are always so drunk! They can't keep an eye or a limb! So how did you become a witch anyway?  Is there some sort of school that you go to? Yes, I went to school and would you believe it? I only mastered one spell! The ability to talk to inanimate objects! Wait . . .to talk to inanimate objects, or have inanimate objects talk.  The latter would be cool the former might mean I have been helping a crazy lady. I can have a full conversation with my cauldron just like I can with a snake. Anyway, that was decades ago and now I have many spells and magic skills like I have many gray hairs on my head. Well that is a relief!  I was fearing that your conversations were one-way rather than two-way.  There's a homeless guy in the village who talks to his hat, and I am sure he is not a witch.