//------------------------------// // Entry 49: New Worries // Story: Samudra's Journal // by vren55 //------------------------------// The nightmares… have not bothered me for some time. However, I’ve gotten some strange reports. There have been a number of stillbirths in Aquestria. At first they were not common enough to be reported to the palace, but this… surge of sorts have some strange things in common. For one, these stillbirths occur in deep ponies and sea ponies, which is strange in itself. If it was a local geographical area or even in just sea ponies, then we could trace the source, but it’s seaponies and deep ponies from a variety of locations. Furthermore, these births… the born all have some kind of armor. They look like typical seaponies, but instead of skin, there is a hard carapace. What seems more worrying is that I smell something… wrong, well not wrong, different. That was my first instinct, but that is often deceptive. It was certainly odd, though. It’s not something any of the healers can smell, so I suspect it’s just me who can sense this. I’ll continue to observe them.