Interview With A Mad Mare

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" asked Pumpkin Cake.

"Of course!" replied Pound Cake, her twin brother. "This is the opportunity I've been waiting for! The scoop of the century!"

This is Pound Cake, one of the many news reporters working in Manehattan. While his sister had followed in their parents' footsteps and opened a bakery, he had deviated from that path long ago. Despite their difference in career choices, they'd still decided to move in together when they'd moved to Manehattan. I suppose that shows how close they still are as siblings. Nonetheless, they constantly had petty squabbles with each other over trivial things, as siblings often do. This, however, was not one of those.

Earlier that week, Pound had received a letter from the warden of a maximum security prison here in Manehattan: one of the few in Equestria. According to the warden, one of the inmates had caught wind of Pound's entry into the world of journalism and had requested that he interview them. The inmate wasn't named in the letter, but it was made clear that this was their first request since being incarcerated. The first one that could actually be granted, that is.

As Pound had continued to read the letter, his breath caught in his throat. He'd finally found out what the inmate's crime was. They were the rarest kind of criminal in all of Equestria, and none of them had ever asked to be interviewed before now.

"You know I want you to succeed," Pumpkin said worriedly, "but are you sure this interview is the only way?"

"How can I turn this down?" Pound questioned. "Nopony has ever gotten to question one before!"

"And maybe there's a good reason for that?"

"I'm sorry Pumpkin, but I'm going to that prison this weekend, and there's nothing you can do to stop me. My big scoop is coming, and it's going to be one that nopony has ever gotten close to before! A look into the mind... of a murderer."