Canterlot castle looked smaller from the outside but he had to try very hard not to get lost in the endless corridors, the twists and turns of the interior, and that was only the few wings he and the griffons had access to. And that little thought brought his attention to something else that has been eating away at him. ’Why didn’t they react?’ He thought. ’A shot had been fired and everyone just… Choked.’ In truth, it was not the endangerment of his own life that upset him, indeed, he knew full well he had no excuse to have reacted as slowly as he did that day. He had been running on a vampiric high afterall. However, there were kings present, had this happened in a human context there would have been no second guessing, no hesitation. Weapons drawn, leaders covered and dragged back to safety, enemies engaged to cover the retreat. It was just common sense. 