*Nightmare Moon nods once, then jumps into the pit, wings outstretched. A little ways down she starts flapping her wings to slow her descent, and summons a ball of light at the tip of her horn to see by.*

*Sigh.* And you were worried that if We learned of this, We would force you to turn back into Arcel, thus effectively ‘killing’ you, correct?

Oh, We aren’t really worried. If somepony tries something funny with Us and We aren’t in the mood, We can ‘discourage’ them quite readily.

While We’re waiting for the analysis, We suppose We should assign you some task to burn off that excess energy, shouldn’t We?

Would you like to try your hoof at interrogation? We have a backlog of suspected spies that need tending to.

You heard correct.

What skills do you possess that you would be willing to lend Us?

We must admit, We do agree with her on a handful of things. For example, it was originally her idea to perpetrate the ‘lazy foals don’t get their cutie marks’ myth, which We think anypony should be able to see has done wonders to motivate the youth of Equestria.

Laugh all you want, but this is a legitimate problem for those of us with life spans far longer than those around us.

Oh, really?~

And to what sort of conclusion did you come to? 

Really? Might it not be the place where the seed is hiding?

Well, We’ll have these two tested as well. That raid Our favourite Sturmpony led against Us a while back has left Us without reliable non-magical mind control. Hopefully this will lead Us to a new method.