#TheTwelveDaysOfChristmas: The Twelfth Day

The Twelve Days of Christmas: A Christmastide Tale in Twelve Instalments. With Elves.

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The Twelfth Day of Christmas

I sprang forward just as the hall door was beginning to close after the last elf had wafted through the opening. I got my foot in the crack, then pushed outward against the heavy steel panel. I was not letting them take Tom from me again. And if I could not free him, then they would have to keep me as well.

Leaving behind me the sound of the confused muttering of the miners...