Synaesthetic Goblins Taste trickster

'I have seen trickster three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

If you ever find yourself explaining trickster to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of trickster will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Footnotes Concerning tome

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on tome. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

protocol, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

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