Elder Rivers glossed over a section of the store dedicated to saws- normal saws were too floppy to be reliable; chainsaws needed too much fuel and were much too heavy to be reliable. Then, he saw an axe. It was the only one in the store. The other axes seemed to either have already been bought or lifted during the chaos of the apocalypse. He took it, holding it in one hand near the head. It was too heavy to use on the sleigh, however. There was plenty of candy lined at the counter. Elder Rivers grabbed as many of it as he could, stuffing it into his fanny pack.

When Elder Rivers went back ot the SUV to load in his axe, he noticed that Santa wanted something from him. "Yeah?" he asked.