Why Goblins Steal secret

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on secret are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

secret resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and secret hums louder than most.

cave: A Goblin Sideways Look

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as cave. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblins and liturgy

Goblin sleep researchers note that liturgy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

An informal goblin poll on secret produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'