Rita sighs, her shoulders heaving. "That's what I did, sort of. Got a house at the far edge of town, put a nice big keep out sign on the door, barely had anyone bother me for years."

Well... the knights did, sometimes. And she still had to go out into town and interact with people once in a while.

"I suppose I did get a lot of work done," she adds, more or less agreeing with Strange. "My research tended to be a few months ahead of the other mages." And now she's bragging.