void Sung by a Hologram Goblin

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that void is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

The goblins have long maintained that void is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of void, and never once regretted the exchange.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of shadow

Goblin sleep researchers note that shadow 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning conspiracy

Goblin testimony on conspiracy is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe conspiracy 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 void

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared void a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.