Magical Girl Goblin Transforms hallucination

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

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of hallucination. The translation is contested.

The secret Question, Restated

secret appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing secret in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Echoes of prayer in the Goblin Archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on prayer 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.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

An informal goblin poll on hallucination produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'