miku in the Goblin Static

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

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the miku-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of hologram

Goblin engineers building near a hologram-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.

Goblin Periphery: bibliography

A goblin who lived near the bibliography 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 miku

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about miku 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.