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// The Soeris Report 2 
// Story: The Diary of Ghostly Scootaloo 
// by ObsidianPony 
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This is the official documentation of the investigation into the disappearance of the pegasus known as Scootaloo from the town of Ponyville. This report was conducted by alias Soeris, current head of investigation for the Night Watch and former Royal Guard Lieutenant. True identification of Soeris is to be known only to Princess Luna, Princess of the Night.

Today my investigation brought me to the cottage of Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness. I confess that I don’t know whether this general atmosphere of fear has affected her too or if she is simply normally this unwilling to talk to strangers. From what Princess Luna has told me I would guess the latter.

The marketplace feels strangely abandoned today and no buskers or street artists made their appearances today like some brave ones did on my first day here. I will wait and see whether this persists but if it does indeed turn out to result from my presence then I admit that I worry that the problems in Ponyville may reach far further than we realised.

Notably today I was pulled aside by Big Macintosh, the brother of Applejack, Element of Honesty; he warned me that it “would do me no favours to go dragging up old injuries”. What in Equestria he meant by that I have no idea because as soon as he told me he walked off with his cart of apples and wouldn’t acknowledge me. I may have to request permission to hold a formal questioning of the Apple family, already Applebloom is a prime lead.

How in Equestria is Scootaloo's disappearance an "old injury"? It has been scarcely a month.

Rainbow Dash has once again failed to make her appearance in Ponyville. What strikes me more than her absence is the towns lack of reaction to it; they have a pegasus by the name of Rain Drops operating as their weather manager for the moment and when I questioned her she persisted that it was normal for everypony to need some time off every now and again.

Fair but most weather managers don’t take unannounced breaks of up to three weeks if my records are accurate.

I must confess that I have been feeling as though I’m being watched ever since I set foot in Ponyville; for now I will chalk it up to the oppressive fear and sadness getting to me but regardless more caution couldn’t hurt.

It would seem the disappearance of Scootaloo may not have been the first atrocity committed in this town.

End of report.