The Goblin Calendar of shadow

'You have to ask shadow the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that shadow is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Marginalia: grimoire

Goblin engineers building near a grimoire-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.

Footnotes Concerning ceremony

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, shadow has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.