You Are Cordially Invited (Alumina)

[Karishima Yumi]

The flyer were printed in extravagant script on the finest parchment paper. Twenty of the House of Earthy Delight's must handsome men and most beautiful women went out into the City of Venus that morning each charged to find people who looked stressed out, or down on their luck, or heartbroken and forlorn.

One such woman, a girl with a lovely head of blonde hair, happened across Alumina as she was leaving a store, and easily noticed the tears on her face. With a kind smile and a knowing wink, she place one of the twenty flyer's in her hand.

It read:

You are Cordially Invited
Karishaim Yumi, Mistress of the House of Earthly Delights
Asks for the blessing of your company.
For One Night Only, all the simple and profound pleasures of Venus'
Most Celebrated House of Pleasure can be Yours FREE OF CHARGE!
Come to be catered to and pampered as much as you can stand!
Just Present this flyer when you arrive!
Offer begins at sundown, and lasts till sunrise!

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That evening, as the sun sank beyond the horizon, Karishima Yumi descended the stairs along with those same men and women, each fresh from a bath and made up without ever looking made up. She was dressed in a wine colored gown that bared her shoulders and cut across her chest so low it was wonder that her sizable chest did not fall out of said gown whenever she moved. The hem of the dress fell to where her ankles would have been, had she any. As it was, the tips of all four of her main tentacles were on prominent display as she glided down the stairs with all the grace of a noblewoman. Her hair cascaded past her bare shoulder to her waist in teal colored ringlets. It seemed to shine whenever the light caught it.

When they were all downstairs in the foyer just before the front door, Karishima turned to her employees. "Pleasure," she began, "means different things to different people. When our special guests arrive, they will pick one of you. You only job for tonight is to find out what gives them pleasure, and then supply it. Take care of them however they need," a smile touched her lips. "And should it come to laying with them.. well, we are all courtesans here."

There was ripple of giggles and muffled laughter.

"I will take the frist guest to arrive," Karishima went on, smiling herself. "This is my home, I think I have the right."

There was more laughter from her assembled workers. Spirits were high; this was, after all, supposed to be a fun night.

There was a knock on at the front door. The door woman, another one of her employees that didn't feel quite ready to be a courtesan, opened it at once.

Karishima slowly turned around to greet who was at the door. "Welcome to the House of Earthy Delights," she told the petite woman there, her teal eyes sparkling as she curtsied low. Behind her, all the women curtsied as well, and the men bowed.

"Welcome!" they all chorused in unison.

[Alumina Nadine]

Alumina's memories seemed so fuzzy at the moment. Like she was there...but she wasn't. It was hard to explain. At times like these she always had to pull her memories together, it was probably the only thing that kept herself from absolutely losing it.

Let's see. Alumina remembered leaving Rin's shop. Confused at best. She had come looking for a princess and had found a Fox instead. And it wasn't even a rich fox, it was a shop-keeper. A shop-keeper who was a thief and ate cookies.

She saw a gorgeous woman approach her after wards, she seemed so kind and handed Alumina a flier. Alumina simply smiled and thanked the woman, not really taking a second look at the contents in her hand until she made it back to her own room.

Alumina stared shocked at the flier's contents. A-a brothel!? she thought to herself in shock,As in a...WHORE HOUSE!? And that woman who had approached her only wanting to make Alumina feel better only wanted to...

Oh God

Yet,our of pure curiosity. Something rare for Alumina. Little Ali decided to go. Maybe the past couple of days had given her some kind of confidence, so why not? She wasn't planning to do anything there anyways. Just give the place a good check-out.

So after bathing, curling her white hair and changing into a long blue dress with plenty of ruffles Alumina arrived at the home only to be greeted with smiling faces.

"Welcome!"

"Oh,y-yes. Hello!"Alumina attempted to greet back but it came out all awkward and shaky. She turned and saw the woman who had given her the flier and winced a bit in surprise. "I see it's you..."she said. Alumina's eyes slowly traced down, sizing the woman up like always did to people when she first met them and was surprised to see the tips of some odd..pinkish looking things.

Alumina's eyes traveled back, landing on the woman's buxom chest and she twitched a bit in envy, then finally rested on her pretty face. Alumina curtsied to the woman,"Are you the lady of the house hold?"she asked.

Alumina put her hands on her tiny hips,"Now,don't get the wrong idea. I don't go to places like these on a regular basis. So don't think anythings going to happen. I'm just curious..."she said. "You see I haven't left my home for hundreds of years and...well..."

"I would like to live life again!"Alumina said becoming confident,"So if you don't mind. As long as nothing..you know harmful happens..I would like to have fun!"Suddenly her face turned red,"And not THAT kind of fun!"

[Karishima Yumi]

Karishima's reply was light, friendly giggle. "As fetching as the red of an embarrassed flush is on you," she said as she stood up out of her curtsy, "you needn't worry. There are many other things to do here than... 'that'.

She approached Alumina, gliding on her tentacles as smooth as if she had floated. "I am Karishima Yumi," she introduced herslef. "And yes, to answer your question, this is my home. And if fun is why you came here, then fun is what you shall have. Allow me to guide you..." she offered, as she slid into place at Alumina's side, lowering her height slightly so she could link their arms. More of her four main tentacles were visible now the floor, having spread down and out from the bottom of the gown Karishima as had taken the vampire's arm.

With gentle urging, she led the way up the hall deeper into the house. Behind them, the door was knocking again as the other flier recipients began to arrive.

The house was dimly lit by lanterns and lamps, though not in a skecthy way.. the sepia tone seemed intimate and romantic, instead of scandalous. Every corner of the house was well cleaned and maintained, and sported the nicest and most comfortable furniture money could buy.

"Now, I could give you the grand tour, but that's hardly what I'd call fun. Maybe you could give me your name and tell me what you'd like... then I can see if i can make it happen."

The pass by a partially open door. Inside were no fewer than ten open massage tables. "Or perhaps a nice back massage while you mull it over?"

[Alumina Nadine]

Alumina linked her arm's with Yumi somewhat hesitantly, not really quite sure what to do. But as they traveled the halls of the house and she was shown around she eventually became less stiff in the mood of the house.

Alumina looked up at Yumi when they stopped at the massage house. "Oh,yes my name is Alumina." My likes,my likes... "I like wine, gardening and the piano." Gardening and the piano?Really Alumina?You're at a party house and you chose those?

She looked into the massage room and began to blush. "What kind of massages do you give? No,wait. Maybe I shouldn't.."alumina began to argue with herself out loud whether or not she should enjoy a massage.

She paused for a moment her face turning red as she put her hand over her mouth. "I apologize,I usually don't talk to myself like that in front of others."she attempted to explain her eyes darting in nervousness.

[Karishima Yumi]

Ah, I've been there, Karishima thought to herslef. Gently, she placed her hands over Alumina's and lowered them way from her cute lips. "Something humans don't seem to get," she said sweetly as she gently guided them toward and then into the massage room with their linked hands,"is how a century or two plays with the mind. When people start to grow old and leave you, its natural to pull in a bit, and talk to the only person you know will always be there. Yourself. No need to apologize. I get it."

By now she had guided her charge into the massage room and slide past the tables to a very comfy looking arm chair with a stool in front of it. She nudged the young-looking vampire into the chair, took a seat herslef on the stool before it. The stool was lower to the ground than the chair, and there was little chance of Alumina looking at Karishima in this position without looking more or less down her dress. She raised one of other woman's dainty feet and removed her shoe before placing the now bare foot in her lap.

"But you are nervous, I can tell. That's the last thing we want tonight. I only suggested the massage to relax you... but we give all kinds here." Karishima began to rub Alumina's foot with both hands, in a very soothing pattern, being sure to hit the pressure point behind the ankle that triggered the release of relaxing endorphins every third pass of her fingers. "If and when you ready for another kind of massage, you just have to ask. You're in charge here."

As she spoke, four tentacles, separate from the ones she had been walking on, emerged from under Karishima's dress. They slid over to Alumina's other foot, removing the shoe. Two of them slipped under her calves, raising the foot to the same level of the one in Karshima's lap, while the other two began to massage that foot at exactly the same speed and with the same motions as the one in her hands.

"What kind of music do you play on the piano?" Karishima asked sweetly.

[Alumina Nadine]

Alumina looked about, throughly impressed with the room. "So....clean!"she said with a happy grin as she was lead about. No dusty spots, no chipped paint on the wall. Just so...white. And clear. It was beautiful in Alumina's eyes.

Alumina hesitated as she was sat down. She noticed Yumi's tentacles emerging from under her lovely dress and crawl up Alumina's foot, Alumina began to shake. "I..uh,I don't think that's a good--"she then felt the tentacles begin to massage her foot, and all the tensity in Alumina began to fade away.

So of course Alumina was shocked at the piano question. She had been lost in her own bliss for a while she had completely forgotten she could even play the instrument. "Music I play...?"she repeated to herself.

Alumina suddenly smiled and leaned back just a tad bit,trying once in her life to get comfortable. "There's this song..."she said,"It's called The Maiden's Prayer. It's really hard to do...but it puts my mind at ease."

"I'm strange. The harder the piano piece the more I enjoy playing it, it keeps my mind focused so it's not all over the place like it usually is." Alumina's smile then turned into a gentle grin. "My mother taught me how to play."

Another thing Alumina had completely forgotten about. Her mother. She began to giggle. "My mother...the crazy old hag."the giggles grew louder into laughs, then settled back again evolving into the smile once again.

"Do you play anything?"she asked Yumi.

[Karishima Yumi]

Karishima's foot massage had, as Alumina spoke, grown into a calves massage as hands and tentacles alike began stray upward raising the hem of the dress as they went. They stopped below the woman's knee however. More than that would have to be requested by her guest.

"Me, play? No," she confessed. "I'm afraid my many business keep me too busy for hobbies these days. I used to paint, though. But I dont think I've held a brush in... maybe 50, 60 years. But remember that feeling you described. It was just me and the brush and the canvas. Sometimes, I didn't even use a model. It was all up here," a thin tentacle emerged from under her dress to tap her forehead a she said that. "Things were simpler then... but that was a long time ago, and I was a different person.

"Would you like that wine now? Or perhaps you might play this The Maiden's Prayer for us? Of course staying right her is an option..."

[Alumina Nadine]

"60 years..."Alumina's eyes widened in shocked as she repeated the time to herself. "Wow..that's. That's a long while," she asked herself what was the last thing she had done in 60 years? Scratch herself inappropriately in public? Something she vowed to never to do again.

"Would you like that wine now? Or perhaps you might play this The Maiden's Prayer for us? Of course staying right her is an option..."

Alumina leaned back. "A glass of wine does sound good and all..."she said building herself up, thinking about what she should do. "And I wouldn't mind playing for anyone..but I kind of have a different idea in mind."she then looked down at Yumi,"Do you think you could paint a portrait of me?"

[Karishima Yumi]

Karishima looked up at Alumina, blinking in surprise. "I -- well I haven't painted in decades! I'm not certain if I am any good anymore!" In her moment of surprise and panic, one of her tentacles crossed the line past Alumina's knee to her bottom of her thigh.

After a moment, though, she relaxed. "Still," she said finally. "This is your night. If a portrait is what you want, then a portrait is what you shall receive."

Two more tentacles slipped free of Kairshima's dress to take over for her hands and she placed them in front of her face, index finger to thumb. She looked up at Alumina through the gap they made in the center.

"Hmmm I'm thinking torso up would be best," she mused aloud. "With a nice background... something natural or at least classy. Will this be nude or clothed?" she asked straight up. It was best to be up front about these kinds of things.

[Alumina Nadine]

Alumina let out a small "OOF!" at the feel of Yumi's tentacles and her face turned red. "Calm down..."she insisted with a smile,"If you don't want to take the request you don't have too...but..."she paused.

"But...I really would like a portrait. I have one but it's of me in older outdated clothes. I wouldn't mind a new one,"she suddenly blushed at Yumi's question. "C-clothed ofcourse! I don't know how I feel about a n-n-n-nude portrait!"she stammered in nervousness.

"I think I would like an indoors portrait,do you have a nice chair? Maybe that would do..."Alumina rested her chin on her hand and began to brain storm.

[Karishima Yumi]

Karishima gave Alumina a knowing smile, and an appreciative once over with her eyes. "Pitty. You have the perfect figure for a nude one. But the customer is always right! Clothed it is!"

She stood to her full height, while her tentacles slid free of Alumina's dress, and even went so far as to replace her shoes. She then offered her hand and helped the other woman up. "I will take you up upstairs to my private residence. It will make for very classy backgrounds, and I have no end of 'nice chairs'. And plenty of the wine you're so fond of. Unless..." she added, her voice playful and teasing. "Unless, you you're against the idea of being all alone with a Madam in her private space...?"

It was so easy to tease this one, Karishima thought.

[Alumina Nadine]

The color red covered all of Alumina's face even going so far as to reach her ears. Her breathing became heavy again,"N-no! I'm fine! I'm fine!"she insisted and coughed a little. "Really..."she blinked.

Alumina was still,sadly a virgin. Now that she looked back she wondered why she'd never had sex,it probably had to deal with the fact that she didn't like leaving her home except every few years, and even then...

And now what? She ended up in some random city called Venus? A humanoid fox had already made out with her in the most inappropriate way possible. Much to Alumina's anger, and now a large buxom woman with rather...naughty...tentacles was laying the moves on her?

This was almost too much for the poor vampire too handle. Almost.

"Why don't you show me to your room?"Alumina asked with a shrug of the shoulders trying to act as cool and calm as possible.

[Karishima Yumi]

"Gladly," Karishima said in tone so innocent, it paradoxically looped back around to naughty again.

Karishima's private residence was, as Alumina would find out one arm-in-arm trip through the house of pleasure and up two flight of stairs later, not so much a room as it was the entire third floor. Alumina was favored with a short tour, pointing out to her den, personal library/office, and finally...

"The bedroom," she said once they reached their apparent destination. But before the poor vampire could go cherry red once again, Karishima added, "My art supplies are all locked in a chest in the far back of my closet. There's no ulterior motive in bringing you here," she added, and planted an chaste kiss on Alumina's forehead before opening her bedroom door. "You are of course welcome to wait inside or outside. It should not take me long to get what what I need for your portrait. I think the library will prove a classy background, dont you? Oh and should the wine arrive before I'm ready, please feel free to help yourself."

Karishima glided inside the room, leaving the door ajar behind her. Were one to peek or follow the woman inside, they would have seen what had to have been the largest bed ever built all but dominating one half of the room, complete with four posters and an expansive canopy. The small vanity and desk, and sliding door to the balcony were all dwarfed by the side of the neatly made and extremely comfy looking bed.

They might also hear the rummaging sounds coming from the large walk in closet across from the door as Karishima looked for her supplies.

[Alumina Nadine]

Alumina gladly took Yumi's arm this time, she felt more relaxed. And as she was shown the short tour she saw things and sights she found interesting and she heard things that were certainly interesting but was glad they were behind closed doors.

Alumina was then shown perhaps one of the most grand bedrooms she had ever seen. Being privileged she had seen many bed rooms (not that she had slept in any of them with their owners,sadly) but this one deserved special mention for it's noticeably large bed.

I guess she needs a big bed for all of her...An image flashed of Yumi's tentacles in Alumina's head....tentacles. But still..

"The bedroom. My art supplies are all locked on a chest in the far back of my closet. There's no ulterior motive in bringing you here," before Alumina could respond she felt a kiss on her forehead. Her face once again turned the color of a tomato and she stood staring in shock for a moment as Yumi left to go get her surprise.

She stuttered for a moment and her mind immediately snapped into place when she heard sounds coming from the closet. "Odd..."Alumina managed to say, her natural curiosity/nosiness got the best of her and she went over to the walk in closet.

"What in the word could be in here?"She asked reaching for the doors of the closet while arching a white eye-brow.

[Karishima Yumi]

The closet door was open, so it was an easy matter to look inside. There was a lantern lit high on the ceiling, flooding the space with light. Three women where in there, picking a box or chest, rumanging through it before setting it aside and picking up another box. One was short and pretty with long blue hair. The other was much taller, with lean but very noticeable muscles and short blond hair. The third, of course was Karishima herself. She stood more or less motionless as a multitude purple-pink tentacles reached deep into the closet for her.

Karishima was also naked, the dress she had been wearing neatly hung up next her.

Her backside was facing the door, giving poor Alumina an eye full of where her human half ended and her demonic lower body began.

"Are you sure it is here, Mistress?" the girl with blue hair was saying. She was scantly dressed in simple a bra and panties, the same color blue as her hair, but at least she was dressed.

"Its here," Karishima said as she tossed aside another chest. "Six decades is a long time is all. It probably buried."

The taller woman - this one full clothed - snorted. "Seems silly if you ask me. This girl -- "

" -- woman," Karishiam corrected. The tentacles not looking for the elusive art supplies pulled free a simple long chemise from its hangar. It looked well-worn and threadbare, and above all comfortable. Karishima slipped it on as she worked. "She said she was over a hundred years old. Vampire, from her scent. Possibly succubus. They smell so alike at times. Don't let her appearance fool you."

"Yes, Mistress. But this woman can, tonight, ask you for anything at all.. and all she wants is a picture?" the taller woman went on.

Karishima shrugged as her tentacles brought her yet another chest to go through. "Not all pleasure is physical," she said. "Ah-ha!"

Inside this chest, carefully stored and protected from the elements and time with a preservation spell, was all the supplies she needed. Karishima closed the chest, picked it up with her tentacles, and turned around, to look Alumina dead in the face.

She smiled. "Now, that hardly seems fair," she said, placing her hands on her hips. Now you've seen me naked and I still dont get to do a nude portrait of you. You're a sneaky woman, Alumina."