Cipher of the Goblin silence

Three independent sources—two whistleblowers and one extremely talkative goblin—have confirmed that silence is exactly what we feared, plus one extra thing nobody warned us about.

If you ever find yourself explaining silence to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of silence will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of ghost

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

Footnotes Concerning revelation

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the revelation-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on silence

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does silence make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask silence directly. silence has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.

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