The Delusional Goblin's silence

Twitter has been arguing about silence for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on silence, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of cave

In the goblin underground, cave 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.

Salvage Notes: prayer

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prayer as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

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.