"They never landed on the moon when they said they did."
"Oh really? Because you would know right? Cause you're from what..."
"The future"
"The future. Sounds great. Did you take your pills this morning?"
"Check the news. Morgobzan declared war on Trifelt."
"What war?"
"Check. the. news."
"Damn. you saw it before."
"When was it declared?"
"Ok, alright! So you came from the times that will be, just so you could inform me that the moon landing was fake?"
"Yes. not just you, by the way. Some hundreds in key positions of fate."
"Key positions of fate?"
"You will happen to meet the most of the most influential people"
"Not myself? ..ourselves?"
"You are also influential, that's how you meet them in the first place"
"That's a good answer. But the question remains: why?"
"The cognitive dissonance created during the moon landing pretense created a sub-altern culture that pitted most of the country in conflict with the elite ingroup"
"So, all those conspiracy theories?"
"Started from a real one, then became devolved over time"
"How would you know we didn't actually visit the moon?"
"I was there, when mankind took a leap back when men a foot away became foreign. A society is the most humane when it acknowledges what makes us human. Curiosity and suspicion are not distant relatives, are they?"
"It is still hard to believe you, though."
"They faked it by sending an orbiter and making it leave artificial remnants of a supposed landing"
"I don't know where you are pulling it from, but you sound both extremely convincing and extremely dumb at the same time"
"It is the thought that counts. when your brethren question something, please listen. This I ask of you"
"Ok alright. I am still human though, I can only be what I am made to be"
"That has been enough for humanity for eons. I am sure it will be enough for the coming future"
"It is tedious work, you are pretty much a slave", I muse to the still bewildered child, wondering who I am and what I am supposed to be.
"And this Santa, does he even pay you?"
"Well, he waves it off as saying we are paid in peaks of laughter, so there's something"
"That's hor-"
"That is not horrible. Believe me, that is the least horrible thing"
"But you said it yourself, you are pretty much a slave"
"Well, I chose this. It is a labour of love. You get your eyes drowning in their sockets and socks so itchy they keep you from being drowsy. But what he said was real"
"I could understand. But you must really be careful, with that travel blessings of yours"
"Yeah, I was a bit drunk. I called it out as to 'send me where the children really understand and enjoy the fruits of the labor of their parents' cause I was getting a little bit frustrated with some of those ungrateful brats, never thought I would be sent to a harvest festival."
"You should have been more specific"
"I thought serendipity didn't have this huge a reach. Anyways, everything is an experience"
"Hopefully you won't face those ungrateful brats again"
"I think Christmas as a whole belongs to the ungrateful perhaps. Goodness often begins, from undeserved love"