Redacted Goblin Memo: ghost

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

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that ghost be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of manifesto

The most recent goblin opinion piece on manifesto concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of network

Goblin testimony on network is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe network 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 ghost

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