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This time, I was under much more stress. Having ran out of my concoction of tranqulizers, and entirely unwilling to test anything new on a deadly, fragile foe, I was forced to go with a more frankenstein method. She was still unconcious from my failed vaporizer, but I strapped her to my lab table regardless of her incapacity. Carefully, I calculate her mass and set a perimeter in my computer. Then, I turn to Artemis reluctantly.

"The matter in which I have to lock her in her perimeter requires that the room be empty of all other bodies, should the mass throw off my computer's calculations." I hesitate, knowing Artemis will be thrilled with the victory I'm about to give him. "So, I have to..."

"Release me?" He asks, expectantly.

"Not quite," I say, "However, I expected more difficulty in keeping you locked away, so I prepared a second perimeter for you." I venture cautiously into his prison and move his foot away from a tile on the floor. I scan my palm print and retina on the scanners hidden beneath it and push Artemis up against a the wall as the floor opens out from where he was standing. Then, I escape his reach and stand looking down at the opening in the floor.

"There's a second perimeter in my storage room, with a bathroom for you. Go ahead and walk over the hole. I'll activate the second perimeter and you'll fall, but then it will magnetize you into the next perimeter. You won't touch the ground until you're safe."

He gives a skeptical look but strides over to the edge of the hole and then tries to jump in. I can't react fast enough to stop him. He stops abruptly and I fall into a fit of laughter.

"What the hell?" He rubs his backside, wincing, and pounds on the empty air above the hole where he's sitting, suspended above the ground.

"The perimeter isn't just where the walls don't reach. It's literally a box; if all the walls fell down around you, you still couldn't get out of it, not through any of the sides, not the top, nor the bottom. That's what makes it a level seven."

"It defies physics!" He protests and stamps his foot as if to prove his point.

"Or does it?" I ask in return. "Your body cannot physically remove itself from the perimeter without release from your mind, and gravity is no exception. You can't leave because your body won't allow you."

"Alright, Elphaba. You defy gravity. Now put me in that second box before I burst into song."

I frown at his cynical remark and begin typing in code for the second perimeter. "Suit yourself," I say and hit the enter key, loving the look on his face as the floor disappears from under him. I hear a muted thud a few seconds later and then climb into the cavity myself.

"You put a mattress on the wall?" He asks, rubbing his head.

"Can't have you splattered all over my storage room, now can I?" I say with a wink. I unlatch the mattress discretely, watching it fall on Artemis.

"Hey!" He growls and rolls out from under it as best he can, hitting the perimeter in the process.

"Nighty-night!" I say and climb back up the ladder, shutting off the lights as I go.