The Grey Tower

Laela Allette Open for any and all, but I'd especially like Carra in on this one!

Carraidhin Glaisne I only Keep the M'Hael, The rest of you can...
'Nattering birds, the lot of them.' Carra thought grumpily. The newly appointed Keeper of Chronicles was not entirely pleased by her day, in fact her entire life in the Grey Tower was turned upside-down -again- with her new appointment and she was not entirely happy about it. The Red Keeper Stole was a gift from the M'Hael, as there would not have been one made previously, and it draped just a little off center from her neck as she walked as quickly as she dared around the Tower. While her quarters were more centrally located she missed the anonymity of her previous home in the basement and missed its simplicities. Her predecessor was not one to really fill a room with useless things but Jenna had also years to acquire many things to fill it with. Even with what she left behind, it still did not yet feel like a place of her own, in her new Keeper Office.

It had taken her a few days to realize the amount of paperwork required for the position, of which Carra was thankful to have become a faster reader over the years in the Grey Tower, and few days more what would be important to require the M'Hael's attention and what were to be hers to sign off. An unsurprising amount of recently filed requests had been thrown into her fire and Carra intended to put many more there until they sorted themselves out. Convinced they were doing this to make her life miserable and busy, Carra refused to let them get their way.

The unfortunate side of it was that in order to keep her position she would still need to cater to them and their ridiculous demands. They would never have done this to Jenna, but then the retired Green had earned her way up just as Carra would have to. But the problem Carra found was that she had yet to distinguish some of these ridiculous demands from the inane and the important. She didn't have that hand or the experience with all the information that was now suddenly at her fingertips. Things that she had absolutely no access to being of the Red that now the M'Hael would grant, depending on the request. The Grey Tower's hate against the Red Ajah became a great deal clearer after reading up on a few reports from their kidnapping of the Amyrlin Seat years back before she had even joined the Grey Tower.

How would she have known? No one had told her and Ashes, Carra never would have asked anyway. The clarity put a few things into perspective but it certainly had not changed her resolve. It only made it stronger. Having already weeded out one conspiracy, discovered a few talented individuals for other Ajah's and seeing the Stairs... No. The Pattern had demanded a new Red Ajah and it had taken care of her enough to see that the work she was doing was good work even if Carra still felt weary of the word 'good'.

The Red Haired, Cairhien Red Keeper of Chronicles was the first to arrive to greet the returning Blue. She ignored the look of shock on the Aes Sedai's face, and only casted a second look to the impossibly tall Aielman next to her. Carra, in all her poise and impassive composure, gave a greeting in a cold tone.

"Laela Allette Sedai of the Blue Ajah? I am Carraidhin Glaisne, Keeper of Chronicles. Forgive my tartiness-" Carra wasn't late at all, but light only knew what the woman would feel about not being greeted at the gate. There was no telling with the Blue Ajah. "I was only recently informed of your arrival. Allow me to escort you to the Hall and see that the work you have started is completed. You do have some time before you are required to attend, if you wish. I will need to know of any arrangements you need made so that they are done on time."