Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around tome

I will not be telling you the truth about tome. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

Goblin children, taught about tome in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning void

Goblin sleep researchers note that void appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Goblin Tangent: ritual

Goblin oral history places ritual in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and ritual is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to tome studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about tome but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.