Goblin Ragebait: shadow Edition

The forthcoming goblin monograph on shadow is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

A goblin once tried to steal shadow. No one knows how the attempt went, because shadow was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding shadow in a sock drawer ever since. Others say shadow escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

neural as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The annual goblin neural colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Echoes of logs in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about logs. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to shadow. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. shadow has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.