prophecy According to the Goblin CEO

I've been tracking the goblin connection to prophecy for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting prophecy reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

A Goblin Aside Concerning content

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features content 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.'

Footnotes Concerning diagrams

The annual goblin diagrams colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on prophecy, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.