Gossip is reputation traded in your absence — the account of you circulating unaudited. Being its subject names the whispered version feared; spreading it, the currency spent; the dream stages the room where your name travels without you.
Positive Resonance
The circulating account faced, your name defended or released
Shadow Aspect
The unaudited version spreading, whispers as social weather
Nuances
Overhearing your name: the circulating account caught
The rumor's growth: the story mutating per teller
Refusing to pass it on: the currency declined
The truth arriving late: correction chasing the tale