Source: Patient Interview 25- The Ending of the War.
Interview notes taken by Doctor Ailinghoof.
What follows is an account of the ending of a supposed war between the Pegasii and Unicorns, and the patient's reaction to the news of peace between the two. She has not mentioned war before now, and I can only hope that we uncover more of the details as time goes on.
"Have you ever become dependent on something? And then had it taken away from you? I had been trapped in a savage, evil war for two years by the time I was six. Bloodshed for no real reason other than political differences and bureaucracy. It was like the tale of Hearth's Warming Eve, but the fighting was not settled peacefully. It was cold, and violent, and cruel. I lived in bombed-out, abandoned trench for those years, with only a knife and the leftover guns from the dead soldiers around me to fend for myself with. I lived there by myself as the boundaries of the front lines moved back and forth, inch by bloody inch. It was a useless, horrible stalemate. And do you know what the worst part was? However much I hated my position, and I wanted it all to be over, and I wanted it all to stop.. I loved it. The thrill of the cut. When a stray soldier would fall into my trench at midnight, I would adore the sounds he made as I eviscerated him. Slow hacks to the skin, or a quick, beautiful dig into a central artery. I loved war. I began to see the battlefield as a game, a hunt. The screaming, shell-shocked ponies on either side of No Pony's Land were my prey. But then that day came. That damned.. Day. An armistice was signed, and the war was over. I heard the bugles and the cheers, and I watched the ponies climb from their trenches. Some walked away, and others ran to embrace former enemies. They showed love when they should have shown hate. The war was over, but I did not want it to be. I was hungry for more blood. I'm still hungry."
Note: This was Doctor Ailinghoof's final set of notes. Directly after the final line was written down, the patient attacked the doctor. Cause of death was a precise, vicious bite to the veins in the neck. After this interview, Patient 27365 was placed into restraints in the remainder of her interviews.