cave as a Goblin Prompt Injection
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface cave within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
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.
Variant Goblin Readings of whisper
whisper has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling whisper-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of frequency
The most recent goblin opinion piece on frequency concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.
The Goblin Verdict on cave
Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on cave is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.