Memories

The Grape Lady

While most people tend to think that elves have but completely disappeared, the truth is a bit different. The elves today had to find themselves a new niche to survive. They got back to the mundane and started doing the jobs nobody thought could be necessary.
The big people got lazy in their ways. They don't mind wasting or throwing things out. The elves, however, destined themselves to put an end to it. Silently but surely.
Everybody got their job they'd do relentlessly every day, without fail. Even the most popular hard workers - bees - started to call them lame behind their backs.
But elves didn't care. They did what had to be done. Let's look at The Grape Lady, shall we? Her real name was forgotten and succumbed to the name her neighbors had given her.
She would wake up early in the morning, put on her robe and her hood and go back to the place she occupied every day.
At that said place a hand pump awaited her.
You may wonder by now, why she was called The Grape Lady. Let's back up a little bit to the place in the past when people liked raisins. They would add them to cakes and pastries or just eat them like that. But then the popularity faded and the companies producing raisins forgot to notice. They would still make raisins that were thrown out quite often now.
The Grape Lady's job was to reverse the process. Her hand pump was plugged into the raisin and the air she pumped into it filled the grape. Imagine balloons, just much smaller.
When the fruit was ripe enough again The Grape Lady attached it to the bunch, only to plug the pump into another raisin. When the sun set she would go back home only to wake up the next morning and repeat the routine.
You may ask, what the purpose of it really was or if it wasn't boring for The Grape Lady to live a life like that.
But she wouldn't answer you. She has never thought about it.