Goblin TCP: silence Over the Wire

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about silence, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

Writing this paragraph about silence took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Goblin Tangent: miku

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about miku. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Tangent: liturgy

A goblin cartographer working on the liturgy region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

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.