Artemis fowl sat on the edge of his seat, scanning through the news. Butler walked in with some tea and was surprised to see his charge so emersed in the affairs of others. "Anything interesting?" he asked. Artemis held up a finger for silence, then put it down and spun his swivel chair around and his different colored eyes were alight with excitement. It was not normal for his charge to become visibly excited either. Artemis spoke in a calm yet excited voice. "Have you seen what has been happening, Butler? Chaos. Absolute chaos around America. Mountains exploding, people falling into quicksand pits that never exist. And," He added, pulling up a picture on his computer. " children disappearing, celebrities disappearing, and storms and earthquakes coming from nowhere."
on the screen was a few pictures of people. A boy with sea green eyes and tousled hair laughing with a tall woman, a famous Mclean and his daughter standing sophisticated in front of a cameraman, an orphan with an elfish grin and a strange contraption in his hands. Artemis continued to flick through more pictures, from a storm to a man who studied pilots daughter not seen for 2 full years. Butler stared at these traumas. " pardon the question, but why are you happy about this?" he ventured. Artemis was not fazed and turned back to the screen. "I am excited, but not for others misfortune. I was studying the excessive amounts of car crashes in new york when I found this." a chart of new york appeared on the screen, of all the car crashes that happened in the last few years. Each spit had a red X. and in one place, a strawberry farm, there was so many Xs that it looked like a blob of blood on the map. Butler raised an eyebrow.
Artemis nodded as Butler started to get it. "I believe that this," he gestured to the red blob, " is no coincidence. And I determine that the cause of these accidents should lead to something big. So prepare the jet." Butler nodded, and as he went to the jet he knew that something was going to happen that none of them could reverse.