"Would you like a blindfold, Mr. Tucker?"

  [ Shou Tucker, in the Fifth Lab, in search of the Gate ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 37
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants
  For - Demidevi's Gen & Squick Contest; winner in both categories
  Ref. - author's notes

"His father's best sword hangs over the mantle; it is a long, razor sharp, perfectly balanced katana, sheathed in deep greenish black and accented in patina bronze."

  [ Vicious: a creation myth for a character too inscrutable to have a story ]

"For the first few months he lives far away from the cities, for fear of discovery. In the countryside of Callisto the snow lies fluffy and a handspan or more deep, and it has its own profound silence and its own soft roar of sound, and he understands."

  [ Gren's story, in sound ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 13

"By the Maker... I thought everything was burnt. Goodness knows, I might have kept something elsewhere than the library--a work in progress, maybe, a failed age..."

  [ Atrus gives his new apprentice a task both useful and educational ]

  Canon - written before Myst IV in attempt to reconcile continuity issues
  For - Sepdet, in a way; the title is a tribute
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"Why are you crying, little brother? She tried to kill you. She didn't even go limp when she died. You're lucky I could do that. I saved you."

  [ seven stories in one, or one story in seven, of Sirrus and Achenar ]

  Spoilers - Myst
  Canon - written before realMYST, Uru, Myst IV and V
  Beta - Dester'edra
  For - Aitrus5, by dedication
  Ref. - author's notes

"He has a terrifying amount of control over my body. It took him weeks to insinuate himself, to force my surrender into a habit."

  [ a brief look at Quirrell ]

  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"Wordlessly, Auron unhooked the bottle again, uncapped it, held it out to the boy. Tidus looked down at it for a long, long time before he took it."

  [ Tidus has emo at Auron ]

  Spoilers - through Zanarkand
  For - bard_linn, by LJ ficlet request

"A fight with long wooden objects should be conducted solely with long wooden objects, that it should."

  [ Hiten Mitsurugi tends to drive you a little crazy, umbrella drops and all ]

"This was his life, in five digits and a silver palm."

  [ Peter and his hand ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"Sleep was falling, was hanging, was chains hand-carved over mindless years and locked around his own wrists, was a linking book swallowed by acid-green fire, was ten thousand days alone in a prison written with words of madness on howling wind..."

  [ Atrus angst in the wake of Revelation ]

  Spoilers - for Myst IV

"When you talk to snakes, everything comes in long stripes, and everybody stares at you as the little scaly garter winds around your wrist and flicks its tongue and murmurs about how blades of grass go this way and that..."

  [ Tom at ten, the crazy boy ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6
  Beta - Dester'edra

"The priest could not rid himself of the fear that the boy was going to kill himself."

  [ an ordeal in the lost years of the Dark Lord ]

  Beta - strange fire

"I think we have a new favorite word, dear."

  [ of course Tony Stark had a lab bench when he was two ]

  For - neotoma, by LJ ficlet request