//------------------------------// // Extract from the automated recording of a conversation between Captain S****** and [redacted]; Transcript dated 05/11/994 // Story: Monument // by Equimorto //------------------------------// She got what was coming to her There's a reason those signs are there With all due respect it's a mare's life we're talking about Ponies will ask questions and they'll want answers Give them answers Provide the necessary portions of the journal if you have to She did what she did to herself and she admitted as much The official version will be insanity followed by suicide You don't need anything else Ponies will ask to see the entirety of the journal That is classified information The things she saw cannot be reported I am aware that the info is classified You won't even let me read the whole thing and you practically wiped everypony who touched it on its way in But the point is that as far as the public knows there's not a chaosdamned thing that's supposed to be classified intel anywhere near the Spire If we tell them we can't tell them ponies will get curious Do you want more bodies to end up in that alley a month from now Because that's how you get that Very well Make up a cover story Radiation leaks could scare them and are something we can easily fake Claim the contents of the journal are too graphic and you're withholding them out of respect Turn the transcriber off Ma'am I'm sorry I didn't mean to Turn the transcriber off It won't be necessary