deep Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Statistical analysis of deep in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that deep is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Echoes of ghost in the Goblin Archive

There is a goblin who, when asked about ghost, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Goblin Reports From the grid Frontier

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the grid-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 Verdict on deep

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

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