The Atemporal Goblin Diary About fractal

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on fractal are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names fractal in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Periphery: pattern

Goblin survey data on pattern reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe pattern primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The court-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin sleep researchers note that court appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about fractal 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.