ARTEMIS

FOWL

THE DARK WAR

PROLOGUE

Excerpt From Holly Short's Diary. Disk 1. Secured.

IT had been almost 2 years since the last Artemis Fowl incident; I can't believe I am still keeping count of it. I will reckon most of the officers had putted him out of their minds...Foaly started taunting me again that I miss that Mud Boy.... No way, no chance. Non. Neo. No no no....

I miss him.

Howler's Peak. Most Popular Goblin Jail. Cell 9.

A desperate fairy dwarf gave a small but comprehendible whimper. "Scar'd, aren't ya?" Hissed his cold-blooded attacker, with a blazing ball of fire
in his scaly hands. Mulch, the fairy dwarf, gave another whimper and scurried off to his own private goblin-free cage. He gave an enormous sigh and sat down near the gray brick wall, grabbed a sharp stone and scratched a line across a box in a chart. Then he just realized something that spread a grin across his face. A diagonal line is every box. That meant only one thing: 2 years have passed. Mulch started removing the bars on his window
with his gas. Now is the time, he thought to himself, now is the time.