Thursday, 14 December 2017

25 Santa Expressions | Day 14

Santa feels Rage


Not all of the children around the world make it onto the good list, some are naughty enough to end up on the naughty list. Those who are on the naughty list always have the chance to redeem themselves the following year, Santa is a naturally forgiving man. Nether the less, there are children who get up on the naughty list sometimes.

Elle was working in storage where all of the presents are kept. She was one of many elves working here at the time. In fact, more elves had been put on storage duty to keep their eyes pealed, there had been reports of missing cargo. During her time in storage, Elle also did a few night shifts. One night she was on duty with Elton, Elaine and Elias. Elle was already familiar with the former two, they were good friends of her's, and she had recently acquainted Elias.

Elle was actually quite glad to be on night duty. During one of her day shifts, she had misplaced some of the cargo and so she hoped that tonight she would get the chance to relocate the cargo and put it in the right place. It was a good thing she did, for she heard the suspicious sounds of boxes being moved and a sack being filled. Elle knew where Santa would be at this time, on account of a previous incident involving a fireplace. Santa's home wasn't far away and so Elle rushed over to him as quickly as she could.

'Why aren't you at storage?' Santa demanded when he answered his door to see Elle. However rather than get a straight answer, she had grabbed him by the hands and dragged him across the estate. Outside the warehouse was a group of bins, including a tall stack of cardboard boxes, which strangely had not been flattened. 'What is the meaning of this?' asked Santa with suspicion.

To their surprise they had stumbled upon an escape route laid out by a thief, responsible for the already missing cargo and the sounds Elle had heard earlier. Santa dand Elle luckily were able to hide so they could make out the their as they started climbing down the boxes. The identity of the elf was clear enough. 'Elias Elders!' bellowed Santa. 'Stay where you are!' Elle was immediately sent to bring security over and Elias was promptly arrested. Elle was relived, she had almost been scared by Santa's brief moment of genuine rage.

Elias turned out to be a their who was stealing from the workshops and delivering to those who had been placed on the naughty list, with a fee for his troubles. While the mastermind responsible was never identified, it was clear now that there would be no problems of such nature, Elias was going away for quite some time.

Some days later, a short but special ceremony was held to commemorate Elle, she never had felt so proud of herself. 'Elle Ellison, I reward you this medal your quick actions and for preventing further losses in our progress of production.' Santa declared. Elle was on top of the world that day.

But what about the mislaid cargo that Elle intended to amend that night? Well it turns out that the goods in Elias' sack were actually the very items Elle sought to move in the first place, so she was completely off the hook!

Two weeks complete and I've made it past the half way point! Hope you're happy to stick around for another eleven days!

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