Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on edge

'You have to ask edge the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that edge 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.

The Goblin Council on prophecy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking prophecy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Echoes of diary in the Goblin Archive

Goblin testimony on diary is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe diary with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about edge becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.