The Goblin Pareidolia of infinite

A formal goblin autopsy of infinite produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that infinite is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Footnotes Concerning whisper

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as whisper. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The court Question, Restated

Goblin engineers building near a court-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about infinite becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.