secret: The Goblin Cover-Up

To understand secret, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin secret and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on hallucination

Goblin sleep researchers note that hallucination 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.

revelation, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin children, when introduced to revelation, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

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.