Hello, this is Bertie, and in a minute Richard is going to be reading our latest Astropub

story, continuing on with the second part of the Mountains of Genius. But first, I'm delighted

to dedicate this story to the Murphy family, who support us on Patreon. Brenner, who is 11, has

listened to StoryNory nearly from the beginning.

And now her brother, Kieran, who is three, listens to.

Thank you very much, Brenner, Kieran and their parents, Lorkin and Julie.

And now over to Richard and Astro Pup. Astro Pup and the Seven Mountains of Genius, part

Marlow pulled the goggles over my eyes.

And wow!

Finally I understood why the mountains game was all the rage.

I was no longer cooped up in a spaceship.

I was in the foothills of a snow-capped mountain among green pastures, sparkling springs, daisies, cornflowers and butterflies.

There were two ways at the mountain.

I could either take a narrow winding path or I could hitch a lift on a ski lift.

Even a dumb dog like me could work out that the ski lift was the way to go.

But at each station of the ski lift, I had to cook a meal for the ticket collector. At the

first station, the ticket collector was a German shepherd dog. This was an easy challenge. I went

to the virtual shop and bought some dog biscuits and a cube

to make rabbit-flavored gravy. I mixed it all together with water from the samovar in the

virtual coffee shop and...

Mmm, what an aroma! The only difficult part was not eating it all myself.

At the second station the ticket collector was a rabbit.

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