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Kabsal visited Shallan often in the Palanaeum where she and Jasnah spent most of their time. He brought poisoned bread for Jasnah on all of his visits. After Shallan expressed a fondness for jam and Jasnah a dislike for it, he started bringing jam that contained an antidote for the poison on each visit.{{book ref|sa1|50}} When he learned that Shallan liked [[simberry]] jam, he brought a jar of it to share with her, and jokingly referenced a book called "Palates of Personality" that made connections between personality and favorite jam, and brought Shallan different jams during their relationship. He tried to get Shallan to join his devotary, despite the fact that recruitment was "frowned upon" by other ardents.{{book ref|sa1|33}} During one of their outings to the gardens, he hid from Taravangian and another ardent, claiming he would get in trouble for shirking his indexing duty but really not wanting his conver to be blown.

While visiting Shallan in the hospital after her presumed suicide attempt, Kabsal succeeded in getting Jasnah to eat the poisoned bread. However, Jasnah [[Soulcasting|soulcast]] both bread and jam out of caution, causing Kabsal and Shallan to fall ill without the antidote in the jam. Kabsal attempted to convince Shallan to eat the Soulcast jam to save her life, but because it smelled so bad she did not. Kabsal quickly died,{{book ref|sa1|48}} but Jasnah was able to save Shallan's life by soulcasting her blood to remove the poison from it.{{book ref|sa1|70}}

After the assassination attempt, Jasnah investigated Kabsal and findsfound that he was not an ardent, but instead a member of the [[Ghostbloods]].{{book ref|sa1|74}}

Kabsal and Shallan get along well - they both have a dry and witty sense of humor and enjoy light verbal sparring. Shallan finds Kabsal very attractive, but expresses reservations when he offers to leave the ardentia to be with her. Although she often remarks upon Kabsal's impropriety when he swears or is overly casual, she doesn't mind. She enjoys his intellect and humor and sees him as a potential source of information about Soulcasting. He seems to enjoy Shallan's company and tries to save her life when she eats the poisoned bread.

Kabsal uses his relationship with Shallan to get closer to Jasnah, but Jasnah is suspicious of him and is hostile. She tells Shallan that Kabsal is trying to steal her Soulcaster.