Shining Armor, before becoming a captain, regularly performed patrol duty with his squad. Many of those patrol nights involved uneventfully standing guard in various districts of Canterlot. Tonight will be just as uneventful as the others.

Or so Shining Armor thought.

Written for the writing prompt "A Scream in the Dark". Thank you to Graymane Shadow for his critique on my fic, as well as everyone else who has read it!