Chapter Twenty Three: The Master Key of the Storage

 The Psychometrician Store was founded by the Christmas Corporation a long time ago, probably as old as The Village itself. There are many things kept in that storage, mostly psychological assessment tools to determine the personality of the children and the veracity of the claims of their letters. Some close to the matter say that love can be manifested in a penmanship style, but mostly the opinion is leaning towards an overall assessment through the evaluation report of the Mirrorites on the field, aided by the said psychometric tools.

It is therefore a matter of necessity to require the operation of the Psychometrician Store to be kept in secret, as much as it do function prominently in the Mission of the North Pole, especially during the gifting season rush. And the storage itself has many rooms and secret passages that leads to nowhere, but no one knows for certain (the North Pole is full of secrets, now we know). This propensity of the many doors to be a source of confusion within the workers in the storage has prompted the Christmas Corporation to create the position of the Chief Storekeeper.

Many believe that the Psychometrician Store has been used centuries ago as a portal of some sort; many presume that this is due to the substantial characteristics of generosity as a manner or form of spatial journey, a certain impetus to a cause. The return of the favor, or a sense of gratitude, helps in the travel that triggers the existential forces that affect motion, speed, work forces, and quantum mechanics.

The North Pole is a place full of mysterious things and recitent past, and this general knowledge is an open secret. But none of them possesses (again!) the proof necessary to provide concrete evidence to propose the fact, and this truth simply weakens the argument that it is conclusive enough to support an assertion that they actually do exist.

A myth, as some would say. And that is exactly a fair statement to describe this present state. There is no solid proof for it, only passed-on folklore. Fantasy, if you might suppose.

The prominent storage, therefore, was completely regarded as a form of an Existential Library, with many rooms and doors leading to the knowledge of what is good or bad. Books resting on their shelves eventually tell the silent minds of many people who dared to share their thoughts, and this provide solid glimpse at the window of his soul, as to someone else's metrics of his personality.

So the rooms were locked with a special secret lockset, each requiring multiple keys before entry is authorized. From there, the Psychometrician Store and its Storekeepers have taken an oath to "defend the Mission of the North Pole, including all of its keys, and locks, and its secret rooms, where love and generosity abound."

But there is one door in the Storage in question that is considered the most dangerous of all; this hallway requires an entry point to a place which leads to the "valley of death." Nobody dares enter in its horrifying presence for fear of being consumed by its promise of deterioration and utter destruction.

The keys to that room was lost many centuries ago. No one can open the place anymore, except for the Master Key (the key that can open all the doors in the Storage). And this master key is in the possession of the Chief Storekeeper. While this offers the possibility of exploring what the "valley of death" really means, no Chief Storekeeper has ever attempted it yet, as of this writing.

The desire to open this vault of secrets, the room of despair, is pronounced to be a crime that is heavily punished by the Code of the Christmas Corporation.

Whether the proposed consequences were determined to be true or false in the future or remains to be concealed at all, even if it took forever, the entry to the place of this unknown knowledge is simply forbidden.

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