Blueblood and Luster Dawn sat patiently and waited for the next suspect to enter the room. They had waited for over three hours now, and things didn't seem to move any faster. Both were unsure what was taking the pegasus known as Derpy Hooves so long to enter the room.
On top of things was the endless bashing sound on the other side of the wall, near the door. They both assumed at first that it had to be Babs Seed, mostly angered by the revelation earlier, but the sound refused to yield. The strangest part was that there was clearly no anger in the hits, rather a rabid repetitiveness to it that had no increase or decrease at all.
Luster Dawn lowered her head as the annoyance was finally her limit. Scratching her forehead with her hooves, she kept the notes right in front of her and continued to memorize them. The great princess, Twilight Sparkle, always prided herself on such endeavours. Luster Dawn was steadfast to live up to such an example, but this noise was beginning to grate at her last nerve.
Conceding for the health of his student's brain, Blueblood lifted his hoof and suggested, "Babs Seed, why don't you orchestrate your anger outside?"
"I am outside!!" she screamed in anger from the other side of the house, nowhere near the door at all.
"Wait," Luster Dawn's eyes widened. "Then who is that at the door?!" She rushed over, wanting it to finally stop and give her some relief, before Derpy arrived.
Opening the door revealed both answers at once; what was causing the sound and why Derpy was so late. Much to the unicorn's shock, the pegasus had been the one banging her head on the wall this whole time.
"What? Huh?" Luster Dawn blinked twice and asked more clearly. "What are you doing?!"
"What?" Derpy stopped and turned to her. Her ditzy eyes lit up, and she smiled brightly at Luster Dawn. "Thank you for your help." She walked past the unicorn and bowed at Blueblood. "Sorry for the tardiness. I was having a hard time opening the door."
"I..." Blueblood's eyes widened just as wide as his student's eyes when he realized everything. "No, I'm sorry that we kept you waiting at the door."
Derpy sat quietly at the table. Without warning, she pulled a muffin out of nowhere and went to eating. "So, can we make this quick? I have children at home to feed."
"Okay..." Blueblood was even more confused, but kept his composure and waited for his student to return to her chair. "Mrs Hooves."
"Oh, I'm not married." She waved him away. "Doctor Whooves is simply too busy for such things. But he's a nice stallion to keep around the kids."
"Okay... Miss Derpy." Blueblood hoped to get back to the subject matter. "Do you know why you are here?"
"No..." She tapped the table twice as thoughts bubbled. "I thought we were having a party, but this one stank, not in a bad way, but rather the smell of this place..." She covered her nose and cleared her throat. "It smells terrible here. Such a horrible place to have a party."
"This isn't a party!" the captain barked.
"Indeed." Luster Dawn was glad to finally agree with the brute of an earth pony.
"Yes, this is about a theft and a murder." Blueblood pressed his hooves together and waited for her reply.
Derpy's face went completely pale, and she dropped the muffin out of shock. "Oh, that poor soul. Who was killed?"
All three of them went wide eye at her answer. They remembered all too well the facts of the situation. How this mare fell in swinging a body left and right at the other ponies. And yet now she was questioning who the victim even was?
Captain Braeburn had shown many times today his bluntness, but this mare hit his absolute limit. "You, you killed Thunderlane!!" he shouted his loudest.
"I..." Derpy's ditzy eyes darted all over the room. "No, I would never hurt anypony!" She argued.
"Then what is this? A leather couch!" Braeburn clapped his hooves. On that cue, Buck Bicep dropped the body of Thunderlane onto the table under his captain's command.
"Wait a minute." Blueblood raised an eyebrow. "Why is this body not in the morgue already?"
"It's evidence!" the captain cheered.
"It's a corpse!" Luster Dawn confirmed.
"Exactly!" Bulk Bicep also replied, not realizing the obvious either.
Blueblood at first was annoyed by the interruption, but looked over the body, anyway. "This is some damning evidence--" He stopped as the eyelids. Leaning in closer, he tapped one lid lightly and pulled back with wide eyes. "I see. Derpy, where did you find this body?"
"Oh, this stallion." She sheepishly smiled. "Well, it's a bit of a long, long story."
"Condence it for us." Luster Dawn deadpanned.
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