Excerpt 1:
A: I’m Agent Evenstar of the Royal Investigations Bureau, and I’ll be asking you some questions about the events that occurred tonight. Thank you for your cooperation.
B: No problem. I’m happy to help.
A: To start, can you state your name and occupation for the record?
B: Oh, okay. I’m Swift Gust, and I’m a firefighter here in Vanhoover.
A: And what brought you to the concert hall?
B: We got a call that a building was on fire in that area, and I flew over immediately to investigate. By the time I got there, the roof had collapsed and the fire had spread everywhere.
A: Did you enter the building then?
B: No. The fire was too strong, so I flew back to the station to request a fire pump team. Then I returned to the scene to assist the injured ponies that had made it outside.
A: When were firefighters first able to enter the building?
B: Uh, about 20 minutes after we got the call.
A: And were any ponies still inside at that time?
B: Yes… there were several ponies on the main floor, but... they didn’t make it. There were also a few survivors in the basement. Four, I think.
A: What can you tell me about those survivors?
B: They didn’t talk much, since they were pretty out of it. They could walk, though, so we escorted them outside, to the medics. Oh, one mare did say she was the singer performing there that night.
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Excerpt 2:
A: Good evening. I’m Agent Harvest, from the Royal Bureau of Investigation. Thanks for your cooperation with our investigation.
B: Uh huh.
A: Please state your name and occupation for the record.
B: Upper Echelon, investor.
A: You were at the Harmony concert tonight, correct?
B: Yeah, though I wish I hadn’t been. [Expletive] that Ember Forge for getting those tickets.
A: Who is Ember Forge?
B: My coworker. I came with him to the show. He’d been going on and on about Harmony for weeks, and look where that got him: the hospital bed!
A: Okay. Going back to the topic of the concert, can you describe what happened?
B: Well, the show started normally, and I suppose Harmony’s singing wasn’t half bad, but about 10 minutes in, this colt in the audience stands up and starts shouting some nonsense. Suddenly, the whole room was on fire. Ember and I were near the exit, but he tripped and fell in the stampede. I picked him up and his face was bleeding and he could barely walk, but I managed to carry him out. When we got outside, I looked back and the whole building was on fire.
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