Artemis thought about Holly and their latest adventure with a one Opal Koboi. He thought of Opal's reaction when she realized that not only were her precious truffles stolen but her plan was foiled in the form of two shaped charges. Little did the teen genius realize but he was being watched, he'd been watched since his father had disappeared.

Dr. Dantante sighed as he looked at the monitors monitoring the boy called Artemis. This poor boy had once been a genius. Artemis walked around the spacious room. Although he believed he was walking down the halls of Fowl manor, in reality he was circling the room of a mental facility where he'd been since a few months after his father's disappearance. Artemis being the imaginative boy he was created an alternate reality in his mind allowing him to escape the cruelty of life. Artemis's father was still missing his mother had been driven insane, and the People, Foaly, Commander Root, and Holly Short had never existed they were just figments of a mentally unstable genius's imagination. Butler had a new principal and employer now but he'd gone against his teachings and gotten attached and frequently visited Artemis. The sad truth was that Artemis Fowl the Second was legally insane and was in a delusional world of his own that no one could penetrate. Most of the people who saw him pitied him but, Dr. Dantante envied the boy for Artemis had escaped life and the brutal way it went.