Reference:Saavedro, lesson Age imager recordings
 | These recordings play in the same order, regardless of where you travel first. |
First recording[edit]
[Saavedro]
What's the matter, Atrus, can't remember how things work? Yet you explained this class so well when we first spoke of it in Narayan: "I want Sirrus and Achenar to learn everything they can, Saavedro. First from Amateria, Edanna, Voltaic, and finally from Narayan. When my boys come to see your people, I want them to see Narayan's traditions at work, so they can see how a civilization can balance an Age." Do you know what they did when they finally came to us? You never came back. After class was over, you took your boys away, and you never came back.
Sirrus and Achenar did.
Second recording[edit]
[Saavedro]
Twenty years, Atrus. Twenty long years alone. They tied me to a post. They burned their Myst linking books in front of me. They took everything I had! My wife! My two baby girls! And then, when I finally made it back to Narayan and I saw… I s—
It would have been better if I had died.
Third recording[edit]
[Saavedro]
This morning I woke up and I couldn't picture Tamra's face… the little line at the corner of her lip that pulls her whole mouth down when she smiles, the flutter in her eyelashes… I tried so hard to picture her in my mind, put her down on paper as if that might bring her back.
I couldn't do it.
Atrus, I'm not you.
