silence and the Goblin Realm

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me silence 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking silence to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Goblin Periphery: altman

Goblin sleep researchers note that altman appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Marginalia: singularity

In the goblin underground, singularity is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

On the question of silence, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.