Chapter 12
Sincerity
The queen sat on a log before the fire and stared at the rat goblin across from her. Though she'd left him in the castle, somehow he'd beat her to the cave. “The camel,” she said, “that was one of the strangest goblins I’ve ever seen.”
Rohaboem gave a single nod.
“It isn’t a goblin is it?” she asked.
“It is and it isn’t.”
She gave a small laugh, then. “People become what they pretend to be in Goblinton.”
“Indeed, Ma’am.”
She frowned and looked him in the eyes. “It's time you tell me what's going on here, Rohaboem.”
He stared back at her, unblinking.
She hesitated for a moment, considering what to say. She would be very careful with her wording. “The world we are in, which contains Goblinton, is bigger than it was when I gave you permission to put up the walls
