<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Lacey MacAllister</span></strong></div><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/17/Victorian4.jpg)</div><br/>As a young lady, Lacey grew up in a workman’s household, her father being employed by the local laird as a full-time carpenter.  As a result, the family was largely geared towards the lifestyle of the blue collar.  Even still, Lacey’s young mind was inquisitive, and she worked out a number of things for herself.  She even learned her letters at the knee of her mother, the nanny for the Laird’s young children, learning with them as they did.<br/>Reading rapidly became a fascination for the young and slight girl.  With little to no hardship in her life, Lacey could ‘afford’ to grow up into the winsome and delicate frame of a gentlewoman.  Between her fair appearance, and her obvious learning, she was a natural to be selected for a position in the Glasgow Library.  It was a position of huge honor for her family, and one which could lead to future generations of the MacAllisters being less dependant on being labourers to earn their bread.<br/>With the pressure on from her family, Lacey poured herself into learning her new trade, focusing on mastering each and every aspect of the work.  It took little enough time for the now young woman to become noticed by the head librarian and archivist, and be selected to be elevated in position, to test her abilities.<br/>This is where we find young Miss MacAllister now, a librarian’s assistant, sent halfway across the Isle to a small gathering of the Winterstones, sent to determine the validity and value of any writings recovered on their dig, in order to determine if the Library should consider making offers for them.<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span>