If ever you should find yourself with a question in need of answering, whether it be about your past, your recent life, or a question about the future, there is known one definite way to find the answer. I will warn you, dear reader, that, while not perilous, there is some chance, and many false paths that will accomplish nothing but the time you take to follow them.
Firstly, I will tell you of a house . . . it's visage varies from person to person, but it is always small and timeworn. It exists in no definite place, having been visited in the bamboo forests of china, the sweltering Sahara, even the desolate wastelands of the far north.