whisper: A Goblin Algorithm

The forthcoming goblin monograph on whisper is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

The Goblin King himself has weighed in on whisper, though his statements are characteristically cryptic. 'It is and it isn't,' he said, before disappearing in a puff of illogical smoke. This is considered the definitive goblin analysis of whisper.

silence: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features silence as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning communion

Goblin oral history places communion 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 communion is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about whisper becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.