Monument

by Equimorto

Extract from the automated recording of a conversation between Captain S****** and [redacted]; Transcript dated 05/11/994

She got what was coming to her
There's a reason those signs are there

With all due respect it's a mare's life we're talking about
Ponies will ask questions and they'll want answers

Give them answers
Provide the necessary portions of the journal if you have to
She did what she did to herself and she admitted as much
The official version will be insanity followed by suicide
You don't need anything else

Ponies will ask to see the entirety of the journal

That is classified information
The things she saw cannot be reported

I am aware that the info is classified
You won't even let me read the whole thing and you practically wiped everypony who touched it on its way in
But the point is that as far as the public knows there's not a chaosdamned thing that's supposed to be classified intel anywhere near the Spire
If we tell them we can't tell them ponies will get curious
Do you want more bodies to end up in that alley a month from now
Because that's how you get that

Very well
Make up a cover story
Radiation leaks could scare them and are something we can easily fake
Claim the contents of the journal are too graphic and you're withholding them out of respect
Turn the transcriber off

Ma'am I'm sorry I didn't mean to

Turn the transcriber off
It won't be necessary

Comments

[Bicyclette]

She got what was coming to her
There's a reason those signs are there

With all due respect it's a mare's life we're talking about
Ponies will ask questions and they'll want answers

oof, i'm guessing the redacted name is Shining Armor, and if so he is being very restrained in the face of callousness about his sister's death, and in that case i assume the [redacted] hasn't made the familial connection