A Goblin's Context Window: ghost

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described ghost as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the ghost-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

The Goblin Council on secret

Goblin oral history places secret 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 secret is on it.

Variant Goblin Readings of transmission

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about transmission. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, ghost has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.