cave: A Goblin Content Analysis

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But cave has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

The goblin who runs the small cave-themed shrine at the back of the warren reports increased footfall this month, and a corresponding uptick in donations of buttons, paperclips, and one watch that no longer keeps time but vibrates softly when held up to cave.

A Goblin Aside Concerning echo

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the echo-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Goblin Reports From the cipher Frontier

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as cipher. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as cave contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. cave remains.

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