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One night, after Siri's performance, she was startled by a figure looming over her. Susebron had risen from his throne by the bed and approached her where she laid. Siri shrieked in terror but when her reaction appeared to startle Susebron, her fear was replaced with confusion. The God King pulled out a book of children's stories, gesturing silently for her to read it, and Siri realized that Susebron had no tongue. Coming to the conclusion that Susebron was essentially a prisoner in his own palace, Siri agreed to teach him to read.
Each night after that one, Siri performed her act on the bed, although at some point she stopped doing this, then she and Susebron sat up all night, as she taught him to read and write they began having conversations with the aid of a small chalkboard. Siri learns that most of Susebron's character is formed from a mix of the fairy tales in his children's book and lessons he received from the priests when he was young. His simplistic worldview, strong moral backbone, and cautious rebellion against his gilded cage drew Siri to him, and she began planning how to protect him as well as herself from the threat she suspected the priests posed.
At one point Siri asked Lightsong to call [[Hoid|a storyteller]] to tell her about the history of Hallandren, specifically previous God Kings and why they all died after their heir was born.
Eventually Siri realized that she and Susebron had fallen in love, and they began actually sleeping together.
Being concerned with both her and Susebron's safety, when Susebron's High Priest talks to her and guesses how she's thinking, she realises that the priests are 'reading' her emotions from her hair and begins practising keeping it stable, as her sister [[Vivena]] always did. By the end of the book, it is mentioned by her sister that she now seems to be very good at the skill.
=== The Pahn Kahl Rebellion ===
Siri devised a plan to explain to Lightsong that Susebron could not speak, and with him convince the other [[Returned]] to demand to hear from their king, exposing the priests' deception; however as she headed to the Assembly to meet with Lightsong, she was cut off by a group of priests. They informed her that she was to go into seclusion due to her pregnancy and moved her to a room outside of which they posted a guard.
Siri waited in the room, occasionally hearing the sounds of fighting, until Treledees appeared and took her to another room, full of priests who surrounded Susebron. Bluefingers offered to take the two of them through the tunnels to the docks, and Treledees assented, but as they headed out of the room Siri realized that the Pahn Kahl are the only group likely to benefit from the conflict that had consumed the God King's palace and would soon consume two nations. She confronted Bluefingers and he ran off.
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