As Ebonshield led the way ahead, the corporal realized they weren’t headed for the sharp vertical cut on the left where the three water-gathering batponies went, but to a larger opening on the right. She said the market wouldn't be busy? Well, if all her kind there in Equestria were nocturnal, owing to having the night shift on the Canterlot Palace walls, then that left passage most probably led to the living quarters. What with it being almost nine o'clock by now, most of the batponies should be almost asleep, besides the ones on a day shift, like the border-guards.