Dream or Nightmare? (Artemis Fowl Fanfic)

Chapter 8

AN: My finals are here so this is probably my last update for quite some time and its really short...sorreh :( Anyways, please vote and comment! Hope you like! ;)

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Rose's POV

I inhaled the chilled air that smelt of wood, leather and paper. Sighing blissfully, I strolled through the shelves of rows and rows of books. Yes, I was in the Fowl Library.

"Hmm...I wonder..." I muttered and walked towards the shelves labelled 'COL'- for Colfer, Eoin Colfer. There was no Artemis Fowl books there, as I had expected. However, a slim book caught my eye. It had a plain azure cover with nothing written on it, unlike the rest of the books. I casually flipped the first few pages and gasped.

'Two birds carved into rest,

Will begin the journey for four with zest.

Through a clue in the same pillar,

Find a path recorded in her.

Only instinct can tell,

What may seem abstract.

And when you do,

Don't look back.

Believe in your heart,

Stay strong.

And be determined no matter what,

Even if the end seems far.

And when you need to pass each check,

Remember to keep in check.

For what you may touch, or feel, or trust,

May just be, what is naught.

Then, oh dear, you are alone,

For what I fear, time to come.'

I reread the elegantly hand-written poem and stared into space, absorbing everything. A myterious poem printed on a book with nothing else on it, in the Fowl Library. What to do? Simple. Two words.

Artemis Fowl.