  
 Sirrus and Achenar must have taken linking books along into the trap books, so they could return to Myst Island. This means that being caught within a link must prevent a return-linking book from working at all, while one is so trapped.  Correct. How can Sirrus, Achenar, and Atrus see and talk to you through the books? My stance is "artistic license for gameplay reasons". Sound doesn't travel through the books, and there is no way that Atrus could have actually seen you from D'ni or for the brothers to see out of their books, or for you to see out of the prison books. But if Atrus wasn't able to tell you to make sure you had the page before coming to D'ni, bad things would happen (you'd be "forced" to get trapped in D'ni, then travel back in time (restore) to get the page). If the brothers couldn't talk to you, you'd have no feedback on your progress in Myst (and you'd have to try all 300 fireplace combos :) And if we didn't let you see out of the books, you wouldn't have had a clue what had happened when you released the brothers, you'd just be stuck in a black screen. Not very informative. 
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