"Come on, Bernard," Scott Calvin (Santa) says, pleading playfully. "The elves won't even notice the human here. They're quiet and going through some stuff at home."

Scott was referring to a young adult he befriended last time her was back home in the city visiting his family. He learned that they had issues with their foster parents who were cruel to them. Now he was begging Bernard, the head elf, to allow them here at the North Pole during December.