Anon Goblin Whitepaper on secret

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me secret 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

If secret were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Marginalia: signal

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on signal. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Marginalia: frequency

Goblin testimony on frequency is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe frequency with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does secret make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask secret directly. secret has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.