While presenting the Ice Cube, a device serving as an imperative tool in his latest project, being capable of shooting minuscule reflective wafers up into the clouds and later descending with snow to cover the glaciers, to Captain Holly Short, Foaly and Wing Commander Vinyaya in the first chapter of The Atlantis Complex, Artemis Fowl ll, suffering from obsessive behaviour and aware of the notion, attempts an 'old trick of the hypnotherapists' on himself, hoping to diagnose his actual malady. He tried imagining himself in a happy, safe place, and chose to recall a few seconds he spent with his late grandfather.