She was pleasantly surprised as an apology proved forthcoming from the man who had bumped her, though her shock turned into a roll of her eyes as she realized it was, in fact, her new captain.  It had to be, as the lack of peacebond on his blade, coupled with the rather outlandish facial fuzz, and the easy way he seemed to move through a crowd of people who, no doubt, spent more money on their attire for this party than she'd made in her entire military career, even counting what she could look forward to in what passed for a pension for retired Guardsmen.<br/><br/>She began to make her way through the crowd to meet up with them, but the humongous to-do that suddenly sounded had her skidding to a halt as old habits tried to take to the forefront.  Her right hand barely twitched next to her hip, even though she hadn't brought her weapons into the event with her.  She did, however, recognize the last member of the new group that had entered, and rolled her eyes with a half grin.  From what she remembered of him from her time on Krieg, Zhou was going to be a handful and a half, thrice over.<br/><br/>She shook her head at the pompousness, and her eyes passed over the room again, altering her intended route to avoid most of the pomp and circumstance, and keep her out of the politics.  She was a soldier first and foremost, and she didn't much care which family or another was in power, so long as they kept the Emperor's peace.<br/><br/>She reached the group in time to catch the last of Seda's comments, and her face actually lit up somewhat from the drab face of someone accustomed to staring death in the eye as she gave a genuine smile.  "What?  Those two?  If the two of them could ever get over their egos to get around to such a thing, maybe."  She shook her head.  "Katarina Serkova, though you can just call me Kat.  Most do."