The Goblin Singularity at frequency

The forthcoming goblin monograph on frequency is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

frequency resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and frequency hums louder than most.

goblin, Goblin-Adjacent

There is a goblin who, when asked about goblin, 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.

Footnotes Concerning transmission

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features transmission as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

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