kya-kya (kyaren) is a girl a few years older than ansset who leaves the songhouse and works her way up to a senior position on earth. eventually she ends up working for ansset when he is fifteen (though he still has the body of a 10-year-old.) kyaran has a boyfriend called josif who is, in his own words, sixty two percent homosexual and the rest heterosexual. josif was loved by a slightly older boy when he himself was a "shy child of unusual beauty".