The Burning [RfE]

Officer Cobaltsky

The eighth year of the united rule under the four princesses.

Subject : Entering the Forest

Our journey into the forest had been postponed for one day due to complications with information gathering. Oddly enough, the complications were not with the mare Fluttershy, but rather with the old mare, Granny Smith. Stonewall came back after five hours spent trying to get back on topic with Granny Smith, and had to take a great deal of our pain killers. We sent Brighteyes in at nine in the morning, and at around seven in the afternoon she finally came back with some recounts of numerous timber wolf attacks, different kinds of tentacle monsters that dwell in the forest, and a plethora of information about the forest. This information may prove to be useful, and it is being logged by our scribe.

In relation to the other interrogations, they went better than expected, especially the shy one. She is not nearly as reclusive as past reports indicate. The child was cooperative and complied with all requests for information. Everything is proceeding swiftly. I do hope we make it to the castle without losing anyone except for Flash.

I currently have no thoughts that were not previously logged, so I suppose I shall go inform the soldiers that they are to log their events and store them. They won't be read, of course, until we return to Canterlot, and even then we can only read ones we wrote ourselves or ones that we are given explicit permission to read by one of the princesses or the writer themselves. Goodnight.