Apache felt somebody approach the door, but wasn't particularly interested. Everybody in the palace she didn't recognise was going to be a stranger, so she wasn't going to get excited about it happening, especially since Khamja members were neatly universally creepy, or scary in some other way.

Of course, her opinion changed somewhat when Gladio walked in. Ignis introduced him to them as though he knew him, so he was likely his companion. When he spoke, though, he lacked the nearly cartoonishly Archadian accent that Ignis used. It wasn't too surprising, learning from different teachers could give you a different accent in a foreign tongue. Gladio's teacher obviously favoured the Bancouri or Landisian accent.

What he said, of course, made her smile. See, it was possible for people to notice straight away, wasn't it, Yylfordt?

"Thanks," she said, doing her best not to look too happy about the compliment.