Letting the silky-fine fabric of the skirt slip through her fingers, and automatically smoothing out any wrinkles that her small tug might have caused, she turned and bobbed a curtsy to the group of much higher ranking women. As she left, she kept her eyes on the lookout for any threats.
Kore was surprised to see an ally, rather than a threat, as she spied a very fancily dressed Caius Dukas. Of her two common tongue teachers, he was easily her most disliked. Kore made her way over to him, winding her way between two clusters of aristrocrats, while trying to keep her eye on Ariadne and Eligia.