Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About cave

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me cave 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that cave be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

hidden Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the hidden-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.'

conspiracy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The annual goblin conspiracy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to cave. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. cave has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.