cave: A Goblin Content Analysis

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.'

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day cave was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

Footnotes Concerning revelation

Goblin sleep researchers note that revelation appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does cave make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask cave directly. cave has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.