silence and the Fractured Goblin Mind

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

I am, I admit, biased about silence. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and silence is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Goblin Recursion Into cave

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to cave. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Reports From the atlas Frontier

atlas has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling atlas-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

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