I’m glad you liked the story. The initial idea for the story came from a news piece I heard a few years ago about a postal worker that collected and read letters to Santa. He (or she, I can’t remember) found a letter from a little girl that wanted Santa to stop her father from hurting her. They called Child Protective Services and took the kid out of the home. I wanted my version of Santa to take revenge on the really bad folks on the naughty list, and I thought something a bit reptilian and a bit magical would to the trick!