It was just after midnight. Honour Bound realized she should be asleep, but she figured she should stay up to see the end of both shifts. She'd hoped nothing would go wrong on the first day, but with a naive young pegasus in one hoof, and a self-absorbed, salt-licking unicorn in the other, anything was possible. Sitting almost sideways in one of the chairs of the living room, Honour Bound was finishing off the final paragraph of an article in that week's 'The New Equestrian' magazine. Over at the breakfast table, Specialist Sparkshower was also staying up late, working through her issue of 'Canterlot Match' that the Corporal had bought her, a quill and paper by her side. That rag was by far the gossipiest of all the gossip magazines in Equestria, but she was actually using it to make notes on the who's-who of Canterlot society. Honour Bound had to admire the effort. Artemis Sparkshower had only recently arrived in Canterlot, after all, and in her own words, she wanted to quickly get the grasp of the capital. Sparkshower had the morning shift tomorrow, but she'd taken a nap that afternoon to make up the sleep time in advance.