I have dreams to transcribe, but this has to come first.

Nopony else is in the library right now.

It's three in the morning, and absolutely nopony is here. Spike is missing. Zecora and Pinkie are both gone. There's a lot of work that's been done in the basement, so even though I feel unrested, I have to presume a full day has passed.

I woke up with the flower still glued to me, but after I pulled most of it out of my fur, that feeling was totally overpowering me. I cast the vampony reversing spell, and it seems to have worked—but just barely. I think I was really close to the end that time. I don't understand why Zecora didn't wake me like I asked.

Fortunately, there's a lot of wolfsbane in the basement still, so even if I had gone full—what was it Pinkie called it, voidmare (or nightblood if you believe the "pegacorn" nonsense)—I could still be in this fight, no problem. But it didn't come to that, and that's a good thing. I have a better chance at finding the cure while I'm partially infected because it gives me much better data to work with.

I've cleaned most of the glue from my fur for now, and I've been trying to put the pieces of this current mystery together. I don't see the note I left for Zecora in the basement. There's something small I can see that's been burned in the fireplace, but the fireplace is out and it can't be the note because I've already tested the ashes. The ashes are from a finer kind of parchment, like a scroll of the non-magic variety. One of the kitchen windows was open (I shut it) and there was a wet breeze blowing in. I suppose a breeze could have blown something into the fireplace, but I wouldn't have left the chain curtain open even if the fire were small and unfueled. Still, Spike or Pinkie might have.

I can't find any clues to suggest where everypony may have gone. Fortunately, there are no signs of a struggle, and the basement looks immaculately clean, probably Zecora there. A few books are missing but I assume those are some of the ones Zecora borrowed. But why would she need to take them outside the library?

The data I collected on Pinkie Pie is still downstairs, but it's been sorted through. I presume Zecora tried to make sense of it while I was out, or maybe Pinkie just decided to entertain herself. I don't really have a reason to start decoding and analyzing it until I come up with gaps in my attempt to make a cure, but a quick once-over has given me confidence that physical phenomena can be used to control the vampony infection from the ground up. (This transformation thing is like a weird magical manifestation with its own rules, almost like it has a personality to it—I know that sounds stupid but it's the best way I can put it into words. But the rules swing both ways, e.g. wolfsbane, and that's promising.)

I really don't like the situation, but there's not much I can do until somepony returns. I can't risk tipping my hoof so I'm not about to go outside. I believe the nightmares I had were extremely important even though I don't fully understand them yet, so I'm going to write them down first, then probably take another nap because I am still exhausted, even after (I think) sleeping for more than a day. Then I'll start working on a magical cure to reverse this condition.

Oh, one last datum: my nightmares were interrupted. There's like, a before, and an after, and this "paused" region in the middle where it's a blur of conversation and light and sound. I can't make sense of any of it, but I think I was communicating with someone. I don't think I actually woke up, though. It must be part of the dream because the potion should have enhanced only dream memories (as best I understand it, anyway), so it's like a greasy, nonsequitur smudge in the middle of an otherwise lucid series of dreams. I'll divide the dream entries in half to demark the nonsequitur portion. I don't have any more details to give because it's actually that much of a strange blur. Just babble and light and confusion, and that's it. A clear memory of pure chaos? I can't really describe it with words.

I'm not leaving a space after this entry. If I need to add something later, I'll add it to the previous entry—I left more than enough space there, after all.