Christmas 2011 Letters to Santa

Another Sunday strip from this year's Christmas story. [link]

The storyline begins here: [link]

KEVIN: This isn’t what I expected.
PEASEBLOSSOM: What, ye thought Santa read all the letters himself over tea?
KEVIN: Yes?
PEASEBLOSSOM: Gordon Bennet No! We get billions a them!
KEVIN: So... No tea?
PEASEBLOSSOM: No time! We’ll need all the people we got t’get it all done!
KEVIN: So... We have our work cut out for us.
PEASEBLOSSOM: An’ that ain’t even a countin’ the backlog.
YUKI: Greetings. I welcome you to the Heart of the... Why, is that you, Mr. Kevin? It is indeed, welcome back.
KEVIN: YUKI! Uh... HI!
YUKI: Hi, yourself. It is so nice to see you in my realm once again.
KEVIN: Uh... Nice to be her... Your hands are really cold.
YUKI: Indeed. WE will have to warm them up later.
KEVIN: So what’s the deal here? Isn’t it a little late to fill all the kids’... orders?
YUKI: there’s far more to working the mail room than that. This is winter, this is darkness, the abyss, It is the center of everything... t When the nights are at their longest and my power is at its greatest. There is a small ember... Call it Christmas, Yule, Hogswatch Night, Hanukah, tlIngan Qummem... It is HOPE. And Everywhere quiet desperate people grasp at it. Sharing their hopes, dreams and desperation in these letters because they
have to tell someone... And in the end who is can you trust more than Santa Claus?
KEVIN: The Easter Bunny?