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- Artemis did not pat his pockets searching for his phone, because he
- always kept his phone in the same pocket. Indeed, he always had his
- tailors sew a leather-flapped zipper into his right breast pocket so that
- his phone could not be mislaid. For if Artemis Fowl mislaid his
- modified phone, it would be a little more serious than if Johnny
- Highschool happened to lose the latest touch-screen model, unless
- Johnny Highschool’s phone happened to have enough tech inside it to
- easily hack any government site, a nice little laser pointer that could be
- focused to burn through metal, and the first draft of Artemis Fowl’s
- memoirs, which did a little more than kiss and tell.
- Artemis’s fingers were cold and numb, but after a few attempts he
- managed to paw the zipper open and fumble out his phone. On screen
- the phone was playing a photo slideshow of his mother while the
- opening bars of “Siren Song” soared through the tiny speakers.
- “Phone,” he said clearly, holding in a button on the casing to
- activate voice control.
- “Yes, Artemis,” said the phone in Lily Frond’s voice, a voice that
- Artemis had picked simply to annoy Holly.
- “Accept the call.”
- “Of course, Artemis.”
- A moment later the connection was made. The signal was weak, but
- that did not matter as Artemis’s phone had speech auto-fill software
- that was ninety-five percent accurate.
- “Hello, Mother. How are you?”
- …
- “So you are in Iceland?”
- Artemis was glad there was no video feed, as it was more difficult to
- lie face-to-face.
- “Of course I am. Why do you ask?”
- “I ask because the GPS puts you in the North Atlantic Ocean.”
- Artemis frowned. His mother had insisted on a GPS function on the
- phone if she were to allow him to go off alone.
- “That’s probably just a bug in the program,” said Artemis as he
- quickly tapped into the GPS application and manually set his location
- to Reykjavík. “Sometimes the locater is a little off. Give it another
- try.”
- Silence for moment, but for the tapping of keys, then another
- hmmm.
- - The Atlantis Complex, Chapter 8
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