 While initially intending to reveal herself to the king and take her place as princess, Ani soon discovers that Selia and the remaining guards are searching for her in order to kill her and that if she outs herself she will have no witnesses to prove she is as she says.She therefore instead finds a job tending the king's geese alongside a boy named Conrad, and she lives among other animal workers to whom she tells stories.After a few hiccups, she learns to use her skills of communicating with swans to also speak with geese.