Goblin TCP: static Over the Wire

Statistical analysis of static in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of static. The translation is contested.

Salvage Notes: prophecy

Goblin testimony on prophecy is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe prophecy with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Variant Goblin Readings of testament

A goblin who lived near the testament site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on static

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does static make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask static directly. static has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.