Goblin RAG: Retrieved echo

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention echo once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about echo, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on delusion

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

On Encountering prayer

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

The Goblin Verdict on echo

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, echo has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.

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