Editing Peckersnot (section)

====[[Verona Hayward]]====
Peckersnot is friends with Verona and he admires her explicit drawings.<ref>The picture was a particular, stand-out piece of a male, put to paper in as much glistening detail as her art skills allowed.  She’d gone to some effort, detailing it, as if sufficient detail could bring it to life on the page or unlock some understanding.<br><br>“Does this satisfy our arrangement, booger guy?” she asked.<br><br>The goblin with the beak nodded with enthusiasm. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/10 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.3]]</ref> He even explained actions he did for toadswallow that he frankly to her that he didn't explicitly have to.<ref>[Toadswallow] sat up, then straightened a bit, looking at them.  “I mean no malice to Kennet.  What I intend to do isn’t clean or perfect but I do think it is better.  I was fighting and goading another goblin to eat filth within half an hour of my entry to this world.  I saw goblins fight and die before I saw any thrive.  Some weren’t able to do anything before the Warrens and their fellow goblins put an end to them.  One of those goblins who couldn’t fight could have been our next great mind, a goblin capable of changing everything.”<br><br>“You say that,” Verona said, pausing.  “But didn’t you ask Peckersnot to kill another goblin, when you recruited them?”<br><br>Toadswallow smiled, eyes narrowing.  “Cherrypop’s little competitor mentioned that, did he?”<br><br>“Drew it.  I asked, he mimed, I filled in the blanks,” Verona said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/06/05 Excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.11]]</ref>

She even named him, an important thing in a goblins life.<ref name=:3>“I thought long and hard,” Verona said, “Kneel, little dude.  This isn’t a ceremony but I’m doing this because I want to.  I’ve been imagining it.”<br><br>He knelt.<br><br>“With that beak-shaped mouth and one eye, I think there’s no way you’re going to be anything but a little pecker,” Verona said, “But that’s not enough, a name needs more.”<br><br>She did a little ‘knighting’ gesture, using the roll of paper, touching each shoulder.<br><br>“I thought about Goobpecker, like woodpecker, but goob is too big a word, too deep, belongs to a bigger goblin.  So… similar idea, but smaller.  Peckersnot.”<br><br>“Why not Snotpecker?” Lucy asked.<br><br>Verona sighed.  “You’re interrupting the not-ceremony.  Because that’s not as rude, and he’s a little pecker who the snot comes from, not someone who pecks snot.”<br><br>The little goblin, still kneeling, nodded.<br><br>“You’ve put entirely too much thought into this.”<br><br>“I was thinking of something cuter,” Avery said.  “Like Snoogie.  Combination of snot and loogie, but…”<br><br>She trailed off.  The goblins were all looking at her with varying levels of upset and ''insult''.  Like she’d done something to wrong ''all'' of them.  The little goblin with the beak sneered at her, singular eyebrow drawn low over its one eye.<br><br>“Peckersnot, Peck for short,” Verona said, rescuing Avery.  “Take your gift, and know if anyone takes it from you, they’ll have to answer to me, ''if'' they are of a reasonable size and combat ability.  If you go losing it to a goblin emperor of the deepest Warrens, I am ''not'' going after it.  It and the name are yours.  So bestowed.”<br><br>He took the roll of paper, which was about as long as he was tall. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/06 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.8]]</ref>