FOUR: THE HOLES SOLIDIFIED INTO MOUNTAINS

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THREE: THE RE-POSITIONING OF GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES

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I found an old – mostly unused – notebook the other day, and a quick scalpel trim down one side left me with a neat stash of uniformly sized paper.

I’ve been filling them in with drawings in between working on the final leg of an illustration commission (thirty-one down, around fourteen to go!), as a bit of a brain-break.

TWO: THEY WERE TOO FAR AWAY...

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...to determine whether the lifeforms were gargantuan, or the terrain rather small.

ONE: SOMETIMES THE MOUNTAINS WENT MISSING

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...but they never bothered looking for them, as they believed in the theory that things will come home when they want to return.

AND THEN THEY MAKE MOUNTAINS

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Possibly out of bits of Universal Matter they've collected over time.

TISMS

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Tisms - a geological ailment: cataclysms on a minor scale, often as slight tremors in a mountain causing an unnoticed avalanche, where the quiet vibrations underground result in an insignigicant shifting of superficial snow.

Generally an affliction of mountains of a nervous disposition.

eg. "What was that?" says one mountaineer to another, after feeling quiverings underfoot.

"Oh, the mountain just has tisms, is all."

OF MOUNTAINS AND ORIGINS

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Someone once told him that everything in existence began from one tiny sphere suspended in space.

THEY LIKE TO STEAL MOONS AND HOARD THEM UNDERGROUND

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UNDERGROUND CAVERNS

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