we were around eight years old . they did not appear to be having a good time . she was in way too much of a hurry to dry it . i needed this to heal my shattered confidence . `` you would really throw me out of your house in the middle of a blizzard ? '' `` they go off so from time to time , when you ask them directions , but it is only these stories of theirs : monsters and gods and the making of the world . 