The house in which…

“Here it is — the House. In all its glory. You sit and stare at a wall or a ceiling. Listening to music or not listening. You die of boredom and smoke non-stop just to occupy yourself with something. And all the while, scaled leaders wander about, the House decides whether or not to mark you, the only normal-looking tutor turns out to be a madman, viruses of diseases unknown to science drift through the air, and in the end, it may all turn out to be nothing more than fabrications by Tabaqui, who loves to scare everyone with ghost stories.”