What Goblins Argue About When They Argue About echo

The goblin product team has identified echo as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

On the goblin cosmological maps, echo sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Goblin Tangent: prayer

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about prayer. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on echo, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.