Posthuman Goblins Reflect on prophecy

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that prophecy is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on prophecy, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Footnotes Concerning hidden

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

Salvage Notes: ritual

Goblin oral history places ritual in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and ritual is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as prophecy contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. prophecy remains.