Posted by Captain Iphigenia Henao (Captain) in The Case of the Mysterious Elf
Date - December 15:

When Iphigenia returned to her quarters in the evening she immediately sensed that something was different. As she cautiously and keenly walked around her room, she looked and mentally noted where items were to determine if something had been moved. When she finally entered her bedroom, she narrowed her eyes as she noticed a strange little item sitting on her bed against the pillow. She placed her hand on her hip and stared at it for a moment before walking over and picking it up. She frowned as she observed the item looking at it from every angle. Then she noticed a tiny knife and also that her pillow, sheets, and bedspread had been cut! Shredded to pieces, seemingly done with the little pocket knife.

A few minutes later she stepped off the turbo lift into the CIC, holding up a little stuffed elf, with a solid plastic head, and a wayward smile plastered on its face in one hand and the little knife in the other, and announced loudly, “Alright, who placed this little toy doll in my quarters and more importantly who cut up my pillow and bed sheets with this little knife?”

Henao, CO

Everyone looked at the CO. They were confused. First of all, how would anyone get into her quarters? And who would be foolish enough to play a joke like that on her? There were a few shrugs and some mumbles of denial as everyone looked around to see if anyone would own up to the prank. One NE finally spoke up. “I have never seen that doll before.... sir”. Another one squinted her eyes and then said, “It looks like one of those ancient toys that 21-century parents used to prank their children with.” She shook her head, “Cruel if you ask me. I would never do anything like that to anyone, let alone my own children. They were so strange in that era.”
Iphigenia took one last look at the doll and placed it on a nearby console. “Well, yall can have it. I do not care for the thing.” She held up the tiny knife, “Now this is adorable. I think I will keep it.” Then she left the bridge.

The little elf doll went unnoticed for the remainder of the evening. Later, it would somehow appear in the science labs on deck four, even still, no one paid much attention to it as they went on about their routine tasks. Much later, when the labs were empty, a local alert would come from one of the science labs.
Security hurried to the location, however, when they arrived, they would find only a few broken containers on the floor and the mysterious elf doll sitting on a workstation directly above where the mess, both of his tiny stuffed hands placed on both sides of him, and seemingly looking down at it. Luckily the contents of the container were not extremely dangerous just flammable at best if mixed with the right substances.

MJ..Narrator of this story