Star Wars with Rankin Bass. Merry Christmas! … In June…
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The Stingiest Man in Town
Prologue: Revan
Holly-ho!
Holly ho-ho-ho!
Holly ho! Tally ho!
Sing a Christmas Carol written long ago.
Mission was hanging out in 500 Republica with her Wookiee friend Zaalbar when we walked up.
"Written long ago." Mission repeated when he noticed us. "The merriest of Merry Christmases to you."
"Who are you?" I asked?
"Who are we?" Mission exclaimed. "I'm Mission Vao, and this is my best buddy, Zaalbar. Welcome to the home of the kindest and most generous man in the Republic, Raven." Mission continued.
"What?" My friend Rob asked in shock.
"You're surprised I call Revan kind and generous." Mission observed. "Well, you can take my word for it. True, Revan wasn't always so jolly. There was a time when he was as mean and miserable as the counting house in which he conducted his business. The offices of Revan and Malak. Now Malak was dead to begin with, but old Revan never paid to have Malak's name crossed out.
There was a mean and stingy man
Who was named Revan.
His heart was hard and cold
Because he was the devil's friend.
While he set down to count the gold
That is mind could never leave.
Young people in the square outside…
"Merry Christmas!" Several children called out, disrupting Revan's train of thought.
Celebrated Christmas Eve.
"Away!" Revan shouted, brandishing an umbrella. "Away with you and your 'Merry Christmas'!"
The children scattered upon seeing Revan.
"Christmas." Revan scoffed as he sat back down. "Bah humbug. Humbug!"
"That used to be his favorite word." Mission explained to us. "My brother was the housekeeper for Picard before he died, so he had me stay and do my brother's old work load, and when Zaalbar ended up owing Revan a life debt, he began working with me too. Oh, Revan was a tight-fisted man. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, covetous old sinner. Until that Christmas Eve, not too long ago, when the ghosts came. My new friends, allow me to tell you a Ghost Story for Christmas. The Stingiest Man in Town."
And you'll hear it too, in a few days, hopefully. So keep an eye out.