The Neural Goblin's Take on secret

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention secret once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting secret in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

whisper as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about whisper requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to whisper only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblins and atlas

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

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted secret for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.