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ATTICUS: How splendidly you’ve set everything up, Wren! And the guests have all arrived?  WREN: Almost. WREN: We’ve got ridiculously sexy pack leader slash DILF Kristopher Volkov. Love the werewolf/vampire inclusivity, by the way. 

WREN: The Night Wraith, who I've definitely seen in a nightmare before. 

WREN: My favorite former Bachelorette Aja McQueen repping humans.  ATTICUS: Oh, she is here only to assist the Spellcaster representative – her daughter. Typically I would never willingly associate with a child, but at only 6 years of age Leona Jade has divination power beyond that of many an ancient Spellcaster. WREN: Black girl magic, we love to see it.  WREN: I typed up the notes Wes put together for you. All 10 pages of them. He’s just finished setting up the drinks.  ATTICUS: Wonderful.   WREN: We’re just missing the other vamp. Literally the most cartoonishly vampiric name anyone could make up, Count Vl– 

COUNT VLADISLAUS STRAUD IV: Good evening, Atticus. I hope I have not kept you waiting, frumoaso [Romanian for beautiful]

ATTICUS: (under his breath) Of course he finds it necessary to make an entrance, the meretricious peacock. ATTICUS: How wonderful you could make it, Vladislaus.  VLAD: And how wonderful you’ve chosen to have this catered. I’m famished. ATTICUS: These mortals are my familiars, and they are not to be fed upon. WES: I’ve prepared some blood-based cocktails for you to enjoy, Count. VLAD: I drink only live blood.  WREN: Well, we're very much not on the menu. I’ll show you to your-- VLAD: Too willful to make a useful familiar, this one. You have always taken pride in wasting time on your little projects, haven’t you, Atticus?