Cooper had seen the woman who had arrived with Arthur. He would have had to be blind to miss her in that dress. Boy, does he suddenly feel underdressed at his own event. Oh well, Cooper's whole strategy for winning the election had been to be his own self and that wasn't about to change.

He sees her about while he's busy talking up a horse shapeshifter that was part of the Nest and then a group of fae that he has a strained smile for. He just doesn't trust the little buggers, and if he could've gotten away with it, he would have banned them from this gathering entirely. When she approaches, he gives her a cursory nod, offering a hand for her to shake. "That I am." He's not sensing much off of her, so she's got her emotions tampered down pretty well.