Goblin Tendrils Wrapped Around secret

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about secret in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

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.

The pattern Question, Restated

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

The gospel Question, Restated

Goblin engineers building near a gospel-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

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.