The “Mountain Effect,” by this time, had become a well- documented fact. It had been established that, for some odd and completely unknown reason, the higher elevation a person travels, the more profound and inspirational their thoughts will be. In fact, one only needs to look at mountains from a distance to begin to reap the wisdom they impart. Yet, two things still remained at the basis of the theory, and, the problem was, they were completely unexplainable.
The first, and most obvious was, “Why? Why do the mountains increase your ability to think?” No one had come close to solving this problem, though many great theorists, who devoted years to sitting on the mountainsides to ponder, had come up with some incredible and quite different from one-another theories. Most doubted that the question would be answered soon.
The second issue of the Mountain Effect was one of a certain barrier that seemed to exist. The higher one traveled, the more profound they became, yet eventually, a point was reached where all sense and logic was lost to an endless urge to scream the number 42. The more insight you had to begin with, the sooner this scenario occurred to you. If you had almost no intelligence, you had to go perhaps three times higher as others before this happened to you. But once you reached this barrier, no amount of height did anything else. It was always “Four- ty- two!!!”
April Rose, however, was determined to make the greatest break-through in science ever. She was one of those philosophers who frequently made trips to the nearby Tierre Mountains to ponder, though she tried not to do it all too often. She resolved that one day, she would solve at least one of the two great mountain questions. She never dreamed that she would only create another.