Prologue
My name is Hemp, and I‘m writing this from a cell. I know what I did, and I am the one who turned myself in to the Royal Guard. I am writing this from my cell in the dungeon beneath Canterlot Castle.
If you have never heard of me and my deed, then there are two possible reasons. The first is that they granted my request that this be kept secret, with these documents the only record. The second possibility is that they didn’t want to disturb anypony with this. Both might actually be true.
Allow me to start at the beginning of the tale that led to me being here in cell 19 of the Canterlot Castle dungeon.