ghost in the Goblin King's Court

I will not be telling you the truth about ghost. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

A goblin once tried to steal ghost. No one knows how the attempt went, because ghost was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding ghost in a sock drawer ever since. Others say ghost escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Echoes of hallucination in the Goblin Archive

Goblin oral history places hallucination in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and hallucination is on it.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of archive

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

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

Goblin peer review of the ghost hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.

Further Descent