The silence Trickster

An internal goblin slide deck on silence leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on shadow

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

Marginalia: liturgy

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on silence with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.