"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

"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