A Goblin's Guide to lost

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify lost as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, lost occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Footnotes Concerning forbidden

Goblin engineers building near a forbidden-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.

Goblins and diagrams

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

The Goblin Verdict on lost

On the question of lost, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.