Rían happily played along with Queen’s Journee’s little self-indulgent power play of locking up him and the others if it meant he could get that conference with her. He could, of course, have forced her into a conversation, but that wouldn’t have helped in the long run. That would have only made their working relationship strained, and she would have no doubt resented him, and continued to mistrust him. And from what Queen Ayhanith had said, the sirens were their ticket to finding the next Kiviä stone, so he couldn’t afford any sort of bad relations. Besides, Rían was confident their jail time couldn’t last long. For one, the queen was curious about the revelation that he was Dasianu. She knew something. And secondly, Chaz. How long would she keep the púca locked up knowing he was her soul
