Meet Delilah!

Full Name: Queen Delilah Glossolalia of Styx

Age: Fifty-six (whatever that means for a goblin); fifty-three in "Goblins and Ghosts"

Height: 5’11”        

Eyes: Large and yellow with snake pupils

Hair: Long, spiky, and bubblegum pink,

Likes: Fashion, lounging around, string, springs, practical and impractical jokes, pineapples, teasing people, the color purple

Dislikes: Losing, being mistaken for a human, anyone who threatens Styx

Occupation: Queen of Styx

Favorite Food: Black Jelly

Place of Hatching: Styx Castle, Styx

Spirit Animal: Cat

Spirit Vegetable Fruit: Pineapple

Little Known Fact: She gets her hair from her father’s side of the family. Most Styxians have blue or green hair.

Two Poems I Wrote in High School

Embarrassment

One day I thought I’d go

to a castle out in Spain,

but sadly my poor map got wet,

and the ink ran in the rain.

And at the end of my adventures,

my face turned bright, bright red,

for I was not in Spain at all,

but Singapore instead.

My Love is Like a Stripy Scarf

The following is a traditional goblin poem by Circuitous Root. Note the lack of consistent rhythm and meter, as well as the needless repetition, as is proper for goblin poetry.

 

My Love is Like a Stripy Scarf

My love is like a stripy scarf

I wear in wintry weather

and wrap and wrap around myself

as we go out together.

Fall Like Lightning

You look out of your tower painted white

and hear the teeming masses shout your name.

Do you regret the wicked price of fame,

the beatific gift you lost that night?

And do you still believe it is the same—

these peacock feathers tinged with darkened flame,

a pale imitation of your light?

This sovereignty constructed out of bones,

where your unshriven vassalage must dwell—

Was this what you desired when you fell?

Can you not hear those pitiable moans

above the words your legionaries yell?

It is the song of pride that burns in hell

and echoes off the alabaster stones.