After twenty years, and training by the finest, Ekaterin likes to think that she's got her party organizing down pat. But some problems, she remembers, no amount of technologically-aided planning can account for. So when the time comes to invite Helen Natalia's in-laws-to-be round for dinner, she stations Armsman Kosti in the dining room with orders to shoot on sight anyone caught attempting to re-arrange the name cards.