"Get a hold of yourself. Listen to me. Are you listening? Good." Midnight breathed heavily. "If you think you're the only thestral to have broken the law when it comes to taking blood from other ponies, you are so badly in denial it would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. And you know others have done it from time to time, and you know some have willing donors. Most others have their own ways of doing things: the occasional chicken, getting 'delayed' on patrols in wooded areas, taking leave to go back home to the Hollows, Blackwoods, and Fetsworth. And you know why they do."