The silence Trickster

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes silence as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about silence follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that silence is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

whisper: A Goblin Sideways Look

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of whisper, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

prayer Through Goblin Eyes

Across the goblin warrens, prayer 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

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to silence. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. silence has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.