"...and they never found the body."
Twilight was staring at Starlight, wide-eyed and unable to form a coherent sentence.
Rarity and Applejack were hugging each other on the ground, eyes closed, their bodies trembling.
Fluttershy was lying limp against a tree, her eyes completely white and a strand of saliva coming out of her mouth dripping down on her unconscious body.
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were in the process of digging a hole to get away from there, the thing already deep enough to hold two ponies on top of each other.
Pinkie was going through every combination of numbers on her costume and pressing the button in a futile attempt to teleport away.
Rainbow was looking at Starlight with great interest, her wings outstretched and rigid.
Starlight's tent was also staring at the unicorn with her large green eyes, her mouth opened in disbelief, although the only ones who could have seen that she was Chrysalis in disguise were in a state of shock too deep to notice.
"So how was it?" Starlight asked.
"You need to tell me where you found that," Rainbow said. "Do you know any other stories as scary as that one?"
"Scary?" Starlight cocked her head to the side. "That wasn't really scary. Like the ones you girls told, after all. I know one that's actually scary if you want."
Chrysalis developed a pair of wings over her tent-shaped body and flew away.
"Starlight," Twilight said, putting a hoof over the unicorn's shoulder, "we need to talk."