Editing Myst: The Book of Atrus (section)

===Life in the Cleft (Chapters 1–4)===
The first few chapters show Atrus learning valuable life lessons from Anna: those that relate to ethics, morality, and logic. It is these lessons that he would later carry with him throughout his life. Anna also keeps telling him tales from and about D'ni and teaches him the [[D'ni (language)|D'ni language]] but Atrus considers them fables. Also, the reader is introduced to the phrase, "What do you see?" which Anna constantly asks Atrus, and he later asks himself. (In ''[[The Book of Ti'ana]]'' it is discovered that [[Anna's father]] coined the phrase.)

When he is fourteen, Atrus conducts an experiment within the crater of the [[volcano]] to charge a battery he's made so he can automate the drawing of water. An explosion uncovers an artificial cave. Anna calls him away as the crater would be too dangerous. Later, unbeknownst to Anna, Atrus returns to retrieve his battery and to investigate the tunnel. In the tunnel he finds a huge carved D'ni word and a [[Firemarble|fire-marble]] and realizes that the tales of D'ni are true.

Anna finds him and she tells him about the [[Fall of D'ni]] and Ti'ana's role in it, but doesn't tell him that she is Ti'ana. Atrus promises not to return there until 'he is ready'. Anna introduces him to the ideas behind the "[[Garohevtee|Garo-hevtee]]" in [[Regestoy|The Art]], and thinks about being able to teach him soon.

A significant event in Atrus's early life the the death of his cat, [[Flame]]; she died after licking toxic substances on herself as the result of Atrus's failed soil experiment.