Twilight sat in the conference room at the Ponyville police station with a smug look on her face. Currently the police were doing a sketch on the serial killer she saw last night, which is the killer who has been the local craze of late. The skinny stallion who was drawing with his mouth looked very horrified at the description and his co-officers had the same expressio on their faces. If Twlight was dumb she would think this was something out of some horror movie or that this random pony was a liar.
“So Ms. Twilight, I’m not sure how much of the truth you’re telling me. But we already had somepony claim she saw the suspect as well and claims she took a photo of him. However, we’re not sure how accurate your description is compared to the photo.” the beige-yellow stallion with a pencil in his mouth said while the pencil moved along with his mouth. Honestly, that was probably the most entertaining thing Twilight could look at. Because looking at someone who could draw, while she couldn’t, was really boring. But seeing a pencil awkwardly move while they talked was mostly comedic.
Then a unicorn mare with a maroon red coat and braided purple hair tapped her fellow officer with a file holder. “Mr. Carrot Cake, this is the photo from Ms. Rarity. It seemed to be taken in a quick haste, but I would consider this important evidence for the case.” The mare took off her police cap and pulled out the photograph of the photo and placed it next to the drawing. The photo definitely matched what Twilight saw last night, and the camera was definitely angled at a point where it definitely seemed like the pony holding it was curled up on the bed while cowering.
“Yep, that’s Rarity for you. A bit of hotty totty fashion and cowardice when confronted with danger. But I must say, she was bold enough to take a photo of that ugly bitch.” Twilight jeered with a smirk on her face as she looked at the two photos. All the officers in that room looked at two different illustrations with shock in their body language and bemusement in their pupils.
“Well, Chrysalis steal my wife on Friday, that be him alright.” a charcoal black pegasus said before taking a long sip of his coffee
The rest of the policeponies had been arguing about whether to show this to the public or not due to the fear of mass hysteria and possible scarring of a young colt/foal minds. But that conversation was given an answer in the form of the moon princess herself, Luna, saying that the photo was important for her investigation and would be important for her ponies to stay informed. this in turn made most of the officers move around in a panic frenzy.
Now Twilight was sitting on a bench at the northern center of town as she watched ponies read the newspaper and talk amongst themselves. Many different producers of those articles gave very different commentary about the photo of the killer. Most of them did comment about the possible danger and some that had their own political takes on it varied the most. One from a news outlet that seemed to pander to those who didn’t like the technological development of Equestria said this is what Arcane study does to your foals. They warned of many other scapegoats to blame as to why this clearly is not a foal who became what he is. Others, such as little internet talk shows now known as “podcasts” that were focused on true crime were absolutely enthralled with such a photo.
Over the next seven hours, Twilight received normal attention than normal. Sure she was already had celebrity status as a sun princess, but being a mare that was a firsthand suspect was certainly eye-grabbing. Most of the paparazzi she told was a half-bit true. She didn’t mention the mysterious disappearance of the DJ in her dreams or that she had tried to kill the killer but merely made herself look like she was a tough mare with a tough personality, which most of the outlets gobbled up. And boy oh boy she hated this. She now didn’t just have to worry about some folklore entity with questionable origins that made her question the very nature of her belief in Harmony, she was also watched by every single pony in this town that was on the “who is the killer” bandwagon.
An hour after going to the local coffee shop she sat back down on the bench with a little coffee in her telekinesis as she drank it entirely. Thankfully, the two other ponies who weren’t paparazzi but rather her two friends that were suffering from the same entity. Both gave each other uneasy glances knowing that their smart unicorn friend was feeling distressed and on edge. They walked up to her while she looked at them sternly before they sat on both sides. "Sooo ya feeling ok today? I mean ya did just encounter the killer last night, or Jeff as those outlets are calling him." AJ asked as she looked at the wandering pedestrians as they went about their daily lives.
Twilight took another long sip before looking back at aj. "Yup, I have and it was very strange. I saw Vinyl Scratch in my dream and she told me to kill him," she said nonchalantly as she took another sip.
The cowpony raised a brow at the odd confession and gave a look that she was confused about what she was talking about. "Uhh are ya sure your not hallucainating? Like in full honesty that don't make sense."
"Look its obvious that Vinyl has some form of connection to the Tallmare. She told me that The Tallmare didn't like me not viewing its tapes, which I don't know why I would at all. She then said that she cheated death by one of the Tallmare's powers."
"Ok how in the Tartarus does that makes sense?" aj implored as she took a sip of Twilight's coffee without permission.
Twilight looked down at the dirt road in compilation to the question with a confounded frown. She generally felt a bit lost at the question and had to work with the small amount of observations she had. "I have one small possible theory, that this mind control thing works like a virus with multiple variations for each individual affected with it. Like Octivia sounds like she has a more common variant where her brainwashed state is subconscious. Then we got the Killers case where he isn't really doesn't even have it in him but was mentally damaged by it, also given those wired shadow powers as well."
"Wait so Jeff has dealt with it before?" Fluttershy asked speculatively.
Twilight face-hoofed. "Yeah, that's what I'm saying! Also, why do keep calling him Jeff? I mean its such a stupid name. like can the news make another-"
"Are you talking about something?"Luna asked as she stuck her head out of the bush behind them. The 3 non-alicorns jumped back in surprise and looked back at the moon princese who gave them a friendly grin. Aj got up and was the first one to look at Luna.
"Luna, why were you in the bushes?"
Luna gave a light chuckle and flicked her mane. "I thought it was funny to hide in the bushes and give you a good scare, but that's not why I'm here." She ended with her voice becoming more serious. "We got stuff to talk about, and you two twilight are going to have this talk tonight."