By Tendai Tagarira.

Dedicated to a brother from another mother a.k.a Karl Coinless.

In Jutland, a boy became friends with a masked panda. His name was Coinless, for he had no coin and no friends.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

His only friend was a mysterious masked panda, but over time, the two began to get on each others nerves as all friends do after a while.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

So one day, the panda packed his things and left.  Coinless was upset. How could panda just leave him without saying goodbye? He screamed out for his dear friend at the top of his voice, so much so that he irritated  the Danish weather. And thats how he was struck by a bolt of lighting, as the Danish weather wanted to shut him up.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

And so with this bolt of lighting, the Mask was born. They say a mask formed on his face and can not be removed by any human force. Some began to call him a freak and others deemed him a super hero.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

But as the days progressed, he began to miss his panda friend. So he became depressed.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

He thought about jumping off the building, but a strange force held him back against the chimney.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

Then suddenly, it dawned upon him what he had to do. So he took up his pencil and began to write the chronicles of the Mask of Jutland.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

And that’s how the story of the Mask was born.

(c) Karl Martin Andreasson

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