Distilled Goblin Wisdom About secret

A particular hum precedes secret in goblin perception — a frequency the goblin ear is tuned for and the human ear has agreed to ignore.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past secret rather than at it, on the theory that secret reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Goblin Tangent: hallucination

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

Three Goblins Discuss invocation

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to invocation. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

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