'A person's never too old for stories', he said to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.
 
As Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet leave the Emerald city, a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam.
 
While they shelter from the starkblast, Roland tells a story about his younger days, when he was sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-changer. 
 
At the scene of the crime he had tried to comfort a terrified young boy called Bill Streeter by reciting a story from The Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole
 
 
THE DARK TOWER SERIES:
THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER 
THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE 
THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS 
THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS 
THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA 
THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH 
THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER
THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL