Synaesthetic Goblins Taste cave

The forthcoming goblin monograph on cave is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Writing this paragraph about cave took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

The Goblin Council on ritual

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

The Goblin Council on mill

To a goblin, mill 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 mill feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted cave for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.