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- “That’s nice,” said the human boy. “I’ll tell him when I see him.”
- “Ehm,” said Turnball, puzzled; then the boy who looked like
- Artemis Fowl jabbed Turnball in the gut with stiffened fingers.
- “Butler showed Artemis that one a thousand times,” said the boy.
- “He didn’t listen, but I did.”
- Turnball wanted to say something, but he was winded, and even if
- he hadn’t been, he had no idea what he would have said.
- “For I am not Artemis Fowl, villainous elf,” said Orion, twisting the
- gun from Turnball’s fingers. “I am the young romantic who always
- knew his day would come, so I listened to Butler and I am ready.”
- Turnball got enough breath back for one word. “How?”
- “Artemis knew he had to escape the power of the rune, which
- controlled his mind but not mine, so he goaded your cretinous minion
- into shocking him, which released me.”
- Turnball clasped his stomach. Of course. Atlantis stage two. He
- rested both elbows on his knees and rasped at Holly. “Kill him. Kill the
- boy.”
- Orion pivoted and aimed the gun at Holly. “Please, sweet maiden.
- Do not force my hand, for I will strike for the good of all.”
- Holly threw No1 aside and ran full tilt, side to side.
- “Artemis could never shoot,” she snarled.
- Orion squared his shoulders and extended his hands, supporting his
- right hand with his left. Both Artemis and Orion were ambidextrous,
- but, unlike Artemis, Orion favored his right hand. He remembered
- what Butler had said time and time again: Sight along your arm.
- Breathe out and squeeze.
- The first pellet caught Holly on the cheek, the second on the
- forehead, and the third on the shoulder, which took a second to
- penetrate. Holly’s speed took her halfway up the curved wall before
- her body gave out, and she slid back down on her face.
- Orion turned to Turnball, who was sneaking up on him.
- “Be still, foul demon.”
- - The Atlantis Complex, Chapter 9
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