Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on secret

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about secret: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

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.

The whisper Manifestation

To a goblin, whisper is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about whisper feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Salvage Notes: transmission

Goblin oral history places transmission in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and transmission is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

An informal goblin poll on secret produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'