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// Extract from Twilight Sparkle's diary; Entry dated 25/09/994 
// Story: Monument 
// by Equimorto 
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When I first started looking into this, I did it out of fun. Something to pass the time. Of course I didn't ask for help. A report would have looked way less impressive if I got help. If there was an inconsistency in the Spire's maps then I wanted to be the one to find out about it and document it, and I wanted to do it by myself. It was a way to pass the time. And I wanted some hard evidence to bring up before I talked about it with anyone official. Even if they turned out to be already aware of it, I wanted a full list of all the different versions I could find of the measurements, so I could give it to them and have them all fixed.

Now I'm starting to be glad I didn't ask for help. I found the stallion who wrote those notes. I went to see his grave yesterday. 15/12/942. He was barely in his thirties. The papers said it was suicide. Looking at the autopsy, he killed himself by falling with his back on top of a knife. Twice. Looking at the Guard's reports, it seems like after that he got up and hid the knife, then cleaned after himself and went back to lie in the same spot, too.

The papers buried the whole thing. Maybe it really was an accident. Maybe every other source I've looked at is wrong. Maybe it's just a coincidence that he wrote he feared for his life in those notes.

I don't think his diary going missing is a coincidence though. He went to the Spire two days before he died. I found pictures of him in 943's Reconciliation Park advertisement booklet and I wager he paid to have those there. He had his diary with him. There's no mention of it in any sources I've found about his death. You don't ignore someone's diary if you think it's suicide.

Maybe I'm just paranoid. Maybe he was just paranoid and it's rubbing off on me. But things don't add up. I think he found something. He found something, and someone didn't want him to get that information out. Whatever it is he found, I'm going to find it too. 'The Spire is not a monument' he wrote in his notes. I'm going to keep quiet about this, at least until I'm sure of who I can trust. I think he might have talked too much.

There's another thing. I was wrong about the book. Someone else did open it between when he left it and when I found it. They signed as 'S.S.', I've wondered if it was the Archivist. 'Forget everything about this, for your own good' they said. Yet they left those notes there. I wonder if maybe they took away some of them. That might explain why some parts are unclear.