GOBLIN RULES.
Don’t get caught performing magic.
Don’t get filmed or photographed.
Don’t go over the geographical boundaries of your district. You will lose your powers, and can be exiled.
Recite daily the Goblin oath, and keep it.
Don’t become fond of humans, elves, fairies, or pixies.
Don’t physically harm any creature.
Remain loyal to other Goblins.
THE GOBLIN OATH.
I WILL ALWAYS KEEP THE GOBLIN RULES, PERFORM MISCHIEF OFTEN, AND PUT THE GOBLIN WAY FIRST, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.
SOUL SHIFTERS.
A fact not revealed in One Summer in Your Shoes. Minx captured two soul shifters, and kept them imprisoned. They only have limited powers, to swap souls for a month, they then revert the souls and leave. For Minx to capture them was quite a feat. This was how she was able to swap Charles and Joe over. It could only happen once, and when the month was ended, they were free, and left Melby, because they didn’t want to get caught again. Minx didn’t tell the boys this.
THE GOBLINS. THE MINX UNIVERSE.
There are six goblins in the book One Summer In Your Shoes. In one of the next books in the series some of them are disillusioned with being a Goblin and want to change, to become good, hence the name Godlin, not Goblin.
WHIRLWIND
A female Goblin. She has the power to move people or objects by creating a wind, or whirlwind.
MAYHEM
Also a female goblin. Mayhem has the power to create chaotic scenes, things becoming crazy and out of control. Known for creating mayhem in supermarkets by swapping signs, food in the wrong places, swapping street signs, creating a fake UFO, and similar.
CHAOS
As a sister of Mayhem’s, she can only affect things that Mayhem has created, so if she creates mayhem, she adds to it. They are known as The Terrible Duo in Goblin circles, a title they have enjoyed very much.
TRICKY
He never tells the truth and causes situations where humans told lies, or made-up stories to cover their tracks. He likes to make people look stupid, performing jokes on them, or tricks.
He also avoids the truth about himself, and cannot be trusted.
He got bored because he felt he had run out of tricks that worked, he needed a new challenge, but lacked inspiration.
As a Goblin he tried to spread fake stories, and they were believed, which meant they weren’t funny or mischievous, as the people were serious about them. As a Godlin when he told the truth they didn’t believe him. He felt he couldn’t win either way.
DEVIOUS
Devious is underhand, mean, grumpy, and snarls. He likes to make people do mean things.
He got fed up because he felt, more and more, that humans were doing mean things on their own, without his input. Or they were being very nice, and couldn’t be influenced to do mean things, there was no middle ground.
Devious is mean to Minx, and wants to give her trouble. He becomes even more sullen and selfish, like a diva. He gives up being mean to humans, so although not strictly a Godlin, he loses his edge.
SNEAKY
No one knows whether Sneaky is male or female. They always creep around, scaring people, moving objects or making scary noises. The problem was people were not getting scared anymore, just saying ‘Whatever’, or not listening because they had earphones, and not seeing because they were on phones all the time.
As a Godlin they had more success because they would play their favourite music, do
something humans liked, and got more attention that way.
At heart, though, they still liked to give Minx grief.
