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Scrawled on a black invitation in beautiful, gold coloured handwritten calligraphy is the date and time of the party, as well as one of Vena's addresses. Beautiful waterfront property just outside of a nearby city. The time on the invitation is listed as 8PM. Vena's attempt to accommodate any guests who may not be able to face the sun. Vena has a preference for nighttime anyway.

The home, itself, sits on a large piece of land with a well manicured and expansive garden on one side, and the harbour on the other. Inside, the home is very open, with plenty of space for party goers to lounge, and plenty of rooms for them to disappear into. There are only two bedrooms closed to the guests: Vena's own and one that that he keeps for his partner. There are floor to ceiling windows that look out over the large deck (where there's ample seating and a fire pit that will have a fire burning all night) and the harbour.

The decor and furnishings, themselves, are all dark shades (and not all white like in the picture!) of varying colours. Greys, blues, reds, and black, of course, with gold and silver accents and the occasional white showing up in a variety of places to break up the darkness.

There is a vast array of finger foods and an open bar, as well as a chef in the kitchen should anyone desire something a little more substantial to eat. He may even have a few humans set aside who are willing to be fed on, should that be what someone wants. Well, more like they're willing to do anything Vena asks, but to Vena, it's all the same thing.

As for the actual guests, an invite has gone out to anyone who isn't human, from demons to mythical creatures and everything in between. That isn't to say that humans aren't permitted (as more than snacks and servants) because they are, but as a +1. They must have something not human to accompany them, who will then be responsible for them for the evening. Don't let you humans get out of hand and ruin it for everyone else. The dress code is semi-formal and the colours are black and gold, just like the invitation.

Vena, himself, is dressed a little more than usual, with a few pieces of gold jewelry and some simple black around his eyes to fit his chosen colour scheme.

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A more seasoned creature of the night could've heard Yesung coming closer. But Kun-woo is hardly a seasoned creature; and there's so much to attract and distract him from listening for a specific person's footsteps. He starts subtly at the hand on his shoulder before almost immediately relaxing. At least he recognized Yesung's touch and scent at this distance.

Kun-woo's dark eyes are sparkling with excitement before becoming narrow crescents as he smiles so broadly at sire. "But there are so many people here and they may not stay all night so I have to be quick if I want to meet them all." He speaks so quickly when he's excited. Though he hardly needs it, he paused to take a breath. It's more to slow his mind and his speech down.

"I can't believe all this was here the whole time!"

A more seasoned creature of the night he will become with enough time and teaching. He'll grow accustomed to his senses and learn how to make them work for him, making everything less overwhelming. Of course that'll do nothing for his puppy-like excitement and the distractions that come with that. Maybe he'll mellow out in time, once this world isn't quite so new to him but truthfully, Yesung hopes he always retains some of it. The puppy's excitement is refreshing.

"Or you can simply meet them next time." Because there will be a next time. Yesung will bring him along to other functions such a this, allow him to mingle with his fellow monsters and get to know them. They're his people now, after all.

Yesung lets his hand slip from Kun-woo's shoulder and instead hooks his arm around the younger vampire's. "And it was all hiding in plain sight. It makes you wonder, doesn't it, how many people you've passed on the street who aren't as they seem."

His comparatively short human existence did little to dampen his enthusiasm for, almost literally, everything. Of course, it's hard to imagine eternity, but he hopes maybe it will just give him more time to admire and wonder at the world around him. Or maybe he's just not doing this vampire thing right by not being sad about quote-unquote all he's lost. For now, his memories of daylight and all its marvels are fresh enough to satisfy him.

"Next time?!" Kun-woo's eyes go as wide as dinner plates, a shock as if it never occurred to him that there could be a next time for a gather like this. Then he pouts in a truly dramatic fashion. "What if next time is a long time away? What if the same people aren't here?" What if, what if! He has to make the most of tonight!

The pout slips into a more thoughtful expression, Kun-woo's brows knitting slightly. IT's as if he's trying to remember ever stranger he's ever passed on the street to recall if their limbs were slightly too long, their teeth too sharp, their shadows absent... "It does..."

Yesung is sure that there was a time long since passed when he mourned for everything he lost, yearned for what he would never again have, but no longer. At present, he wouldn't give up what he is for anything. He revels in his being a vampire and everything that comes with it. He is not sad about quote-unquote all he's lost. Perhaps it's simply that, whereas Kun-woo's memories of daylight are enough to satisfy him, Yesung's are too far gone to taunt him. Because he's actually forgotten or simply because he let them go? Hard to say.

"If I decide you've been good enough to deserve a next time." As though Kun-woo has been anything but on his best behaviour tonight, but it's entertaining to tease the cute little thing sometimes. Dangle a nice treat in front of his face. It's not cruel if he plans to give Kun-woo his prize in the end. He hums thoughtfully while he considers Kun-woo's questions. "Have you never considered that I could throw a party?" He's not exactly the hosting sort and he doesn't really like crowds in his home, though both issues could easily be solved by throwing money at the problem. Rent a venue. Hire someone to host. He'll probably never do it, but it's a thought.

Yesung lays his head on Kun-woo's shoulder as the young vampire's expression changes, tipping his head back to watch the way his face shifts. "Think as long as hard as you like, but I'm sure you won't figure out who was really human and who wasn't." He picks his head up off of Kun-woo's shoulder then moves to stand in front of him. "You thought I was human when we first met, didn't you?"

Oh such a severe pout! How dare Yesung tease him like that when Kun-woo's on his best behavior so he doesn't embarrass the vampire in front of all these people! But then he bursts into sparkling excitement once more at the suggestion of Yesung of throwing a party. Clearly from his reaction, the thought of Yesung hosting a party did not, in fact, cross his mind.

"Would you???"

If he didn't react in such a delightful way to the teasing, Yesung wouldn't do it anymore. It wouldn't be cute anymore. It would be boring. Kun-woo's dramatics keep everything too fresh and enjoyable to stop now. Kun-woo really has been on his best behaviour so far tonight, though. Unless he makes some grievous misstep, Yesung can't see any reason not to give him some sort of reward. Whether that comes in the form of getting to tag along to another event with Yesung or just something else entirely remains to be seen.

Yesung reaches out to take hold of Kun-woo's face between his thumb and fingers, gently squeezing his cheeks. "Stay on your best behaviour and I'll consider it."

Doesn't Kun-woo have the most devastating puppy eyes, Yesung? But they're full of sparkle and shine as they peer back at his sire. He nods as best he can in the vampire's grip.

"I will! I'll be very good!"

Kun-woo does, indeed, have the most devastating puppy eyes. Once upon a time, such a thing would've had zero effect on him. He didn't really care for puppies until he got one for himself. Perhaps he's not as cold and unfeeling as he once thought. Or perhaps it's just the puppy. He squeezes Kun-woo's cheeks a little more firmly before releasing him entirely. "I know you will."

Yesung moves to Kun-woo's side, hooking his arm around the younger vampire's. "Have you met anyone or anything particularly interesting tonight?" He's generously allowing Kun-woo a few moments to gush about the party and those he's met.

He winces just a little under the pressure of Yesung's grip. But it's gone quickly enough and the question that follows ignites him once more. He squeezes the arm looped around his, ready to follow along if Yesung wanted to walk while they chat.

"Oh, I met a pretty blond! Two actually! But they're not as pretty as you." He's quick to add that last part. "They were both super friendly. Some others were more, uh, reserved. I don't think they wanted to talk much to a stranger. And I met another vampire, too!"

Ah but hearing that little wince from Kun-woo is absolutely delicious. Apply pressure not with the intention of hurting him, but just enough to make him squeak. Like a little toy. It really is quite cute.

Yesung starts to lead the way around the party, walking with no real destination in mind. He offers the occasional soft greeting to people they walk past, otherwise his attention is on Kun-woo, listening as he speaks of those he's met so far tonight. He peers at Kun-woo out of the corner of his eye when he mentions the 'pretty blond' (two actually!), as though waiting for that final clarification. The faintest smirk touches the vampire's lips before he expression becomes rather neutral once more. Good boy. "Remember that most here are used to living in secret and have been doing so longer, even, than you've been alive. Even in a settle where they're free to be who and what they really are, it's hard for some to let go of their secretive ways." One night of open living versus lifetimes of being secretive. It's not easy.

"Another vampire, hm? I suppose I shouldn't be terribly surprised that we aren't the only ones here."

Listen, all these supernatural people are pretty! Is that an unspoken requirement? No creature or monster can be among us if unsightly? Sorry, ugly people, you're stuck as humans forever. Too bad so sad. That would be kind of awful. But, gosh, everyone here really is beautiful. Or maybe Kun-woo's just seeing things differently now that he has a vampire's sight instead of a human's.

"I've been very good about not asking, I promise!" Not that it hasn't been obvious with each and every new interaction that he wanted to ask. Maybe if he were here alone he would. But anything he does as Yesung's guest reflects on his sire. Kun-woo is keenly aware of that and doesn't want to embarrass Yesung in front of people he's known longer than Kun-woo can imagine.

"Mmhm. He's, uh..." Hold please while he scans the crowd for... "There, with the purple hair. Do you know him?"

Vampires, were-creatures and the like, the types of monsters who are created by others, Yesung assumes they were all once people beautiful enough to attract the eye of the monster. Outside of the most dire of circumstances, of course. Attractiveness is certainly what made Yesung take notice of Kun-woo the first time. Then there are some shapeshifters who are able to choose their human form and thus are able to make themselves very eye-catching. For everyone else? Just luck, perhaps. Or maybe it really is just Kun-woo's inhuman sight allowing him to see the world differently now.

"I believe you have been." Chances are rather high that if Kun-woo started to poke his nose in where others don't think it belongs, Yesung would've heard about it by now. Yesung has little doubt that some of the guests would've been quick to tattle on the baby vampire to his sire the moment they felt he overstepped. Even if not for all of that, what reason does Kun-woo have to lie about something like that? It would've gotten him nowhere.

Yesung's eyes follow Kun-woo's, then he cranes his neck a little to spot the vampire the other is speaking of. "Though I've seen him a time or two before, I don't really know him. As far as I'm aware, he tends to keep to himself."

"Oooooh," Kun-woo sighed dramatically. "I'm going to do so badly as a vampire!" Keeping to himself isn't something he could do on pain of death! But it seems like that's what vampires do? Well, the sample size has been small so he's not sure, but oh, he doesn't want to keep to himself!

"But if you all keep to yourselves, why do come to parties like this?"

"You'll do fine." At least it isn't as though keeping to themselves is a hard and fast rule that comes with vampirism. Some just find it hard to maintain relationships with those they will far outlive, yet never bother to seek out other immortals. Some simply despise their own kind. But that doesn't mean there aren't vampires out there with ever growing social circles. Not everyone is like Yesung or Hai.

"I can't speak for everyone, but I just enjoy attending parties sometimes."

Kun-woo presses his lips together, first into a line, then puckering them in thought. He's hemming and hawing, arguing with himself over whatever's on his mind. He does this a lot, it's nothing unusual. He even wobbles from one foot to the other while he's discussing the matter with himself. Before, at long last, "Can I ask you something?"

Yesung slows his listless meandering as he watches Kun-woo's expression change again and again, eventually coming to a stop entirely. He's clearly got something on his mind so Yesung patiently awaits to see if he's going to say it, or if he's simply going to figure it out on his own and move on.

Turning toward the young vampire, Yesung raises a brow and tips his head to one side curiously. "You may ask, yes."

"Um, I don't mean this in any kind of insulting way," he prefaces, chewing the inside of his cheek as he continues to mentally fret. "Since you're all sort of... I don't know, I guess since there's not really a collective, agreed upon kind of vampire society... is there some sort of hierarchy I should know about? I mean, you know like 'this person over here is an elder so he gets to be treated with more deference' sort of thing? And how would you know since it's not like you... we age or anything?"

He's so worried about making a faux pas and causing Yesung any embarrassment.

He's young, so Yesung gives him much more leeway than others and does expect a certain amount of potentially untoward statements as Kun-woo figures out his new life. So he doesn't seem terribly put off by the thought of a potentially insulting question to follow. A faint smile touches Yesung's lips as Kun-woo gets on with his question. Questions. "Don't concern yourself with anyone but your maker. I am the only one you need to be treating with deference."

"Ah!" He sighs, slumping in his relief. As if it wasn't obvious, he says as much. "That's such a relief! I was so worried!"

For all of the few minutes it actually occurred to him that he might have to actually treat other vampires a certain way simply because they've been vampires longer. At least with people, you can usually tell who's older. He was really worried, Yesung!

As if most things aren't obvious with Kun-woo! Now that they're past that, Yesung starts off on his aimless wandering around the party again, tugging on Kun-woo's arm to get him to follow. "You let yourself get worked up over things so easily." It's actually a little endearing sometimes watching how flustered he gets himself over things that Yesung considers quite minor. "When in doubt, simply refer back to me. If I'm showing someone respect, you should as well. If I'm not, then don't bother. Otherwise, concern yourself with only me."

Please never ask Kun-woo to be mysterious. He couldn't do it! He's too honest and too effusive. His face has subtitles! His body language is a subtitle! He really would fail at being a Mysterious Man of Mystery^TM.

The light tug is enough to remind Kun-woo that they were supposed to be walking. Right! Walking around the party!

"What if you're not around?" Asked with a very devastating pair of puppy eyes staring up at him. "I mean, I always try to be polite to people!"

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