Fine-Tuning a Goblin on cave

They don't want you to know about cave. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about cave for centuries.

On the goblin cosmological maps, cave sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Marginalia: hologram

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

Goblin Tangent: throne

To a goblin, throne is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about throne feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

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.