The Goblin That Whispers silence

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about silence in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

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.

lost, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, lost is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

court as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Across the goblin warrens, court is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on silence: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.