after this , the circumstances become somewhat gray , for any stories of the familys encounters , subsequent to their arrival in yami , are more or less woven into the tapestry of the town itself and have , thus , come to possessas is the tendency of most stories subject to frequent tellingsno shortage of dissenting versions , needless exaggerations and maddening contradictions , all of which should be dictated according to the pertinent biases of the narrator in question .