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Usage examples of artas.

Embarrassed that he was not yet dressed, Artas quickly donned his tunic, with its clan markings, which told everyone who he was and let those who must defer to him know their place.

Indhuon would be one of [150] the last people with whom Artas would interact, as he descended into the cylinder of devivement in order to become one with the Deathbringer.

And so [168] on and so on, until they reached the tenth name, which was his own: Artas siv-Taruna es-Sarion.

The front runner was Beridon, whom some considered the favorite, though Artas knew that in the betting parlors of the city she held a slight edge.

A girl on fire, trying to quench herself in a lake that was beginning to boil—people racing through the streets—a man’s face [174] melt ing — piles of charred flesh— a crowd of hollow-eyed children pointing at the sky, chanting Artas, Artas, Artas—but not in admiration.

The fact is, Artas, that no one knows what it will be like—only you will know, and no one alive today will be alive when you arrive to find out the things you will know.

Your task, Artas, will have been the total annihilation of people five thousand years in the future, who may have no awareness whatsoever of this war, this ancient hatred—or whose knowledge of it may be only in the form of myth.

There would be merriment and laughter and Artas would be toasted in a million households.

And then Artas saw—and Adam saw through Artas’s thousand eyes, the panels on the smooth surface of the artificial comet-First, the world itself.

Deanna knew that Artas could sense things that happened in the chamber.

Although Artas was receding from her range, his emotions were so powerful, so amplified by five thousand years of solitude that they still infiltrated her psyche.