josif falls in love with ansset the first time he meets him. he tries to avoid seeing the boy again, but this is impossible. as he slowly starts to mature, growing 17 centimetres, ansset starts to seek out josif's company more and more. josif and kyaren have a baby boy by now, but ansset begins to realise that josif is sexually attracted to him, as many people have been before. he recognises however, that josif's love is different from the lust he has seen so often. ansset starts to feel new longings. he knows that the drugs cause problems for songbirds, particularly boys, but he has lost his songs and wants to know what happens next. ansset eventually offers himself to the young man, saying, "i know what you want, and i'm willing". josif lovingly brings the boy to his first climax. as ansset experiences his first ever orgasm, he experiences enormous pain. the songhouse drugs have almost killed him and he is forever impotent.