A short story set on Christmas Eve in a fort bordering the place where the Sons of Solomon had ruptured the Hellveil all those years ago and started the war to end all wars... human ones, at least.

But that was then, and this is now, and the glorious victories and heart-pumping battles Kyle Eckhart had been raised hearing about are long gone. Now there's just the monotonous cycle of eating, sleeping and keeping watch over the frozen, empty tundra.

Until now. 

As Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day, a strange secret santa stands silent watch over the mercenary camp, while within the tainted wasteland something stirs...