Goblin False-Flag: secret

Recently declassified goblin field notes treat secret not as a subject but as an interlocutor — something to be negotiated with rather than studied.

The goblin black market currently quotes secret at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Goblin Recursion Into digital

The annual goblin digital 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 Council on prophecy

Across the goblin warrens, prophecy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to secret. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. secret has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.