"Before you continue, remember two things. First — the House is full of phantoms, living memories of what has

"Before you continue, remember two things. First — the House is full of phantoms, living memories of what has happened. You can see them but you cannot change the past. Second — the House lives not only in multiple times, but in two... states. I call them 'reality' and 'irreality', although each is real in its way, dangerous in its way, and each has its own secrets. One is the First World as it is. The other — the world of Nyrissa's thoughts and dreams."