The Orc Who Saved Christmas
The Orc Who Saved Christmas Orcs did not celebrate Christmas. This was a fact, one that Darryn had heard shouted at him for much of his adult life. He was only half-Orc, however, his mother being the Orc and his father being the human who lost an unfortunate bet. There was much alcohol involved in Darryn’s conception, and even more of it when they were trying to work out which one of them was going to raise him. He looked more like his father than his mother, which was offensive to half the Orc population at least, and so Darryn was classed as an abomination and handed over to his father to keep. He spent a few years with his father, who spent more time in the mines and the taverns than he did at home, but Darryn learned quickly how to mind himself. He also grew quickly, which made his father uncomfortable; a ten year old child as tall and hardy as a forty year old man required explaining, and to keep suspicion off and ridicule away, Darryn’s fath
