Artemis took a chance on some calculated sarcasm. “Really, Spiro. Did you think I would attempt a break-in? Perhaps you thought I would fly in here with my fairy friends and magic your box away?” Spiro laughed. “You can bring all the fairy friends you like, Arty-boy. Short of a miracle that Cube is staying right where it is.
The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.
It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
It can play solitaire and minesweeper,” replied Artemis innocently.
Certain battles were won by retreating.
Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.
Butler shot one of the half dozen diners a fierce glare, just in case she might be planning something. The woman must have been at least eighty.
Excuse me, Tex,” the nurse said, hands on hips. ‘Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn’t want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits.
Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here.
Giving evidence against one’s employers was the first step to unemployment.
The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.
I know what the Book says,” snapped Root. “I just wish you weren’t so gung ho about it. If I didn’t know you better, I’d say there was some human blood in you.” “There’s no call for that,” pouted Cudgeon. “I’m only doing my job.” “Point taken,” conceded the commander. “I’m sorry.” You didn’t often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult.
Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn’t the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.
No one’s ever really ready for a troll.
Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.
Fowl and fairy, friends forever.
You didn’t foresee a troll-riding dwarf pushing your plane down the runway. You must be losing your touch, Artemis.” He.
Hey,” snapped Holly. “This is not the time to blame Artemis.” “Thank you,” said Artemis. “Finally.” “There will be plenty of time to blame Artemis later, when this is resolved.
No self-respecting criminal mastermind would be caught dead even using the word lollipops. He really would have to put together a database of witty responses for occasions such as this. It.
The commander had decided to take offense at the fact that the first female officer in Recon’s history had been assigned to his squad. Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn’t think it was any place for a girlie. Well, he was just going to have to get used to the idea, because Holly Short had no intention of quitting for him or anybody else.