Grape, that was a great play to Xany's speach.  Feel free to throw chemistry in as you like.  After all, no one said all the Mistress's had to be in love with each other.  Besides that, with any social gathering there is going to be politics and always someone you wish were just somewhere else but there.  If Xany ends up the social badguy, I'm good with that.  *grins*  She doesn't seem to be the kind to be bothered by it either.