For years, we have continued to kill subsequent births of armored sea ponies, but they… they’re spreading. It’s not that their number is increasing significantly… well, as far as we can tell, but what used to be relegated to less populated communities is now spreading to cities.
Which means more questions. I’ve been able to suppress the knowledge of the births and keep the fact that seaponies and deep ponies from across Aquestria have been giving birth to these mutants, but this is growing increasingly difficult.
I… I wish I could ask Starswirl for help, but knowing him, and knowing what I’ve done, he would be appalled at what I’ve been forced to do. Moreover, it’s been years since I’ve had word of him. Apparently, according to the more recent responses he gave me, he’s been working with a group of pony heroes known as “The Pillars of Equestria”. He’s also been doing some experimentations with time. Going back and forth across years, entering into limbo and out. If that is so, then he may not have the journal with him at all times.
He never replied to my last message to him, though. Rather, he seems to have disappeared. The few spies and informants I have in the surface waters have indicated that Star Swirl hasn’t been seen in a long time. And neither have they heard of the Pillars of Equestria of late.
Unfortunately, I haven’t the time to worry about this because there have been sightings of a very different mutant. A larger one.
Just how in Tartarus is this possible? The mutations and the speed at which they are happening has been… odd enough, but now a larger version of them? I’m wildly speculating at this point. It’s more likely the sightings are simply bad rumors gotten out of hand. I must treat this cautiously though.