The Latent Goblin Space of hologram

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me hologram 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in hologram-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of pattern

There is a goblin who, when asked about pattern, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Marginalia: compendium

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features compendium as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hologram a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.