What the Goblin Vivisected Found in silence

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described silence as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

If silence were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Footnotes Concerning ghost

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about ghost requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to ghost only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Variant Goblin Readings of throne

Goblin sleep researchers note that throne 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.

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.