...it very much played into some of my expectations.

Two expectations in particular: one, the Red Ajah will evolve from hunting men who channel into working directly with the Asha'man, and two, the AS will eventually take the Asha'man as Warders, the Asha'man replacing the traditional Warders, maybe involving mutual bonds between the two. Now neither actually happened since these were Fourth Age theories of mine, but the Androl/Pevara plot represents some first steps towards it.

I kind of don't remember who Androl is exactly, and it doesn't help that the BT plot here first started developing right when the series hit it low point. The only Asha'man I remember (besides Logain and Taim of course) are the main ones that spent time doing stuff outside the BT, Flinn, Narishma, and Grady. I'm going to have to go over some of the previous books, but Androl seems to have first appeared in WH.

Pevara's easier to remember since she's been around since aCoS, and she's more memorable. It helps that she's just about the only Red who is sympathetic (maybe Tarna and Silviana too, but Tarna got Turned in ToM?). Most of the other Reds we've seen are either Black Ajah (Liandrin, Katerina) or psycho bitches (Elaida, Toveine), or both (Galina).

The whole Red Ajah working with the Asha'man is touched on not only with Androl and Pevara bonding each other and working together, but also in that Androl bring the point up directly with Pevara. The Red's old purpose is gone, so what do they do now? The whole full telepathy aspect was interesting, it's kind of like the Warder and wife bonds are sort of incomplete and so only give a limited empathy, but combine the two of them and they become a greater whole. It's very well possible that the AS may eventually prefer Asha'man as Warders because there's additional advantages.