mylittlejamjar | Fifth Starfall: A Confession [Visual]

[Unlike most times that Flare talks, she doesn't seem angry or concerned... more "ashamed". It shows in her voice, which is a bit more hesitant and awkward than usual.]

H...hey guys. I just wanted to come clean with something. Before that whole fog crap set in, I messed up. I hadn't really slept since I'd gotten back to being, well, my normal age, and I wasn't thinking too clearly. I'd been holding onto that thing to use as leverage, but it had started stinking up my place, so I figured I'd air it out and warn everypony of what was going on at the same time... maybe even smoke out allies of the guy I was looking for at the same time.

I bucked up, solid.

I don't know who that pony skin belonged to, but the clown owns it now. The one going by "Pierrot"? Yeah, it's his. Everything I've found out points to him being one of the statue ponies, and I can only imagine that he skinned a native in order to blend in around here to escape detection. I found out during that circus of his, and I never had a chance to confront him about it what with suddenly becoming a foal and forgetting about it.

I shoulda come clean with it as soon as I saw Pinkie Pie stepping in to defend him, but instead I just assumed she was in league with him. After all, how else would she know how to rebuild a statue pony unless she was working with them? And then to get it possessed by the spirit of Nemo, at that.

Look, fact of the matter is that I got way too overzealous and put everypony on edge right before everything went to hell.

And I'm sorry.

If you need to talk to me in person, you know my usual moping spots.

[And that said, she closes the scroll. She'll probably be fairly quiet should anyone approach her normally over the week.]