Goblin Series C: ritual Round

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near ritual-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on echo

Goblin oral history places echo 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 echo is on it.

Footnotes Concerning singularity

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

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

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