The party took place in a wide, lavish ballroom, all black-and-white marble and gold accents. Wait staff in impeccable suits wandered the floor with trays of drinks and tiny, prettily-designed snacks, while the guests, all dressed to the nines, milled about from the card tables to the dance floor to the flower-bedecked balcony overlooking the city.

As Kaguya made her way into the room, a young man with sandy blond hair walked past her to get to one of the waiters with champagne. Glass victoriously in hand, he turned around to go back where he'd come from -- and only narrowly averted bumping into her, a little bit of bubbly splashing out of his glass as he jerked back to avoid a collision.

"I'm so sorry, miss -- Are you alright?" He frowned, reaching for a pocket handkerchief. "It didn't get on you, did it?"