Artemis Fowl: The Ivy Dilemma

(This is written 8-9 years after the Opal Deception. Artemis is about 21.)

Prologue

Venice, Italy 23:47

Nothing could be heard in the abandoned warehouse but typing. Very frantic typing.

It wasn't unusual in this particular warehouse to hear something of the sort. The "owner" was always there, always doing something, but no one had ever seen him. It was here that all the supplies were stored for the various heists he had pulled off, and for all the future excursions. All the answers were here, in these walls.

But unknown to the public, it wasn't a man that owned and operated this warehouse. It was a 20 year old girl.

Her hands slowed and she paused, green eyes studying the message she had labored over for the past two days. It had to be worded perfectly, lest she insult him too much and he wouldn't take up the offer… but he had to. She depended on it.

Besides, she smirked, it wasn't like him not to accept a challenge. She wanted to sting his pride, to draw him in.

Her hand definitively pressed the button on her computer, and she smiled as it showed her message had been sent.

All she could do was watch and wait.