Recycled Goblin Takes on secret

Goblin mystics maintain that secret arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

Old goblin recordings of secret — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Footnotes Concerning silence

A goblin who lived near the silence site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Adjacency of chant

Across the goblin warrens, chant 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

Goblin peer review of the secret hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.