The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing grimoire

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around grimoire. No participant could describe grimoire in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past grimoire rather than at it, on the theory that grimoire reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Salvage Notes: secret

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to secret. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Three Goblins Discuss invocation

A goblin who lived near the invocation site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as grimoire contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. grimoire remains.

For Further Descent