Zarayne attempted to make a meaningful look around the room for the box the novice was seeking, but the loft was filled with boxes. The bulkiest were the size of a small horse and few in number. Clearly the Aes Sedai in question had not sent this novice along to retrieve one of those. The most numerous seemed to be about four feet long and three across. Bulky, but manageable enough to carry, depending on the contents. She pressed her slippered toes against the base of a stack of boxes, admitting to make a judgment about their weight. The stack didn't shift, not even when she put all of her muscle behind it. Looking at the stack, then looking out to the rest of the room, Zarayne tried to calculate how many boxes there were. Thousands? Tens of thousands? Zarayne hoped that whomever the Aes Sedai was, she better have relayed useful instructions to this girl.
"I am sorry for before," Zarayne said. "Let me help you." Working off her toh here and now was far preferable to doing so in public. It was bad enough that she was permanently attired in clothes nearly suitable for a gai'shain.
"Did you receive a description of the box that you are looking for?" Zarayne asked. "How large or small it might be, or if it has any obvious markings on the side or the like? I don't fancy being stuck up here for hours, looking at thousands of identical boxes."
"I am sorry for before," Zarayne said. "Let me help you." Working off her toh here and now was far preferable to doing so in public. It was bad enough that she was permanently attired in clothes nearly suitable for a gai'shain.
"Did you receive a description of the box that you are looking for?" Zarayne asked. "How large or small it might be, or if it has any obvious markings on the side or the like? I don't fancy being stuck up here for hours, looking at thousands of identical boxes."