In the dark of the night

Twilight sighed in recollection. It had come as quite a shock to her then that two of her friends had walked out of shadow and into the forest with them that day.

As she sat at her station, pen sitting in the ink well, she heard hoofsteps approaching her door. The unmistakable cadence of Artemis's trot. She heard the knob turn and the door open, then quietly close before Artemis set about to putting away whatever she had acquired.

She could smell cinnamon, so it was probably delicious.

"Hey Twilight, I'm back!" Artemis called up. More as a habit than anything. She knew full well that Twilight had excellent hearing, even for a vampony. It was a habit she couldn't really kick.

"Up here Artemis!" Twilight called down, never really taking her eyes off of the scroll she had been writing on.

"Hey, there you... are..." Artemis said as she crested the stairs, stopping as she took in Twilight's body language. Which she knew quite well.

"Twi, is something wrong?"

Looking over her shoulder and giving the Raven-maned pegasus a wistful grin, she shook her head.

"No, nothing wrong. Just been writing up until a few minutes ago. How long were you gone for?"

"About three hours. Was catching up with Pinkie and before I knew it, we'd been talking for about that long. Finished off a whole tray of cinnamon rolls by ourselves." She said, patting her stomach with a hoof and licking her lips with a goofy look in her eyes.

"Almost sorry I missed that." Twilight said with a chuckle as she returned to looking at the scroll.

Artemis walked over and started scanning through the pages that Twilight had written, her face giving away tiny bits of her emotions as she read. After a few minutes, she came up to where Twilight had stopped and giggled.

"Oh, just getting to the part where I come in eh?"

"Yea, You know... To this day, it shocks me that Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were vamponies the entire time I've known them, but they never showed any one thing to make me think otherwise." Twilight said, giving pause before she continued.

"... Except Pinkie Pie... I knew that mare had SOME kind of magic that normal earth ponies don't have. Only logical explanation!!"

Artemis giggled beside her.

"Oh Twilight, you and your logic!"

"Are you saying logic doesn't have all of the answers?"

To this, Artemis only smiled and shrugged. As much as Twilight hated to admit it... she had seen things that defied all logic. They had baffled her, consumed her mind, even come close to killing her because of how illogical they were. However, she tried to make sense of it all, using one of the best tools she had.

Logic itself.

"Well, I don't know about you... but even after a whole tray of those cinnamon rolls, I'm thirsty." Artemis said, giving Twilight a nudge. Looking out the window to the night sky above, Twilight felt the urge she knew Artemis was feeling as well. Something almost feral within her. Something drawing her into the night. Turning around to her lover, Twilight gave Artemis a wicked smile and bore her fangs.

"That's my girl!" Artemis said, letting her own fangs grow before the windows were opened by the lavender aura of Twilight's magic.

"I think it's about time you took a break Twi. Let's hunt!" Artemis said as she jumped out the window and took to the air, followed closely by Twilight.

The night was young after all.

She had all the time she could ever want.

She needed a break.