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Down to Business
By nine-pm, the café was full. Half of the park’s staff had shown up for the impromptu party, as well as most of the currently guests, including a couple of families with young children who now played in the children’s play area at the back. Long out of marshmallow mix, instead the café owners on the staff had donated boxes of biscuits and cookies. The lads had brought in some craft beers from the pub and now sat on one table, playing team Jenga against the three elves who sat opposite, fully decked out in their staff gear. Jason, who had gone home to change clothes, had reappeared just after dark by sleigh, bringing with him a couple of boxes of Christmas lights, which they had all helped to hang up over the café’s front windows while the four reindeer snorted and st
