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He traveled on ''[[Wind's Pleasure|The Wind's Pleasure]]'' with [[Shallan]] and was selected by the [[Tozbek|captain]] to accompany her to the [[Kharbranth]] Conclave where she would meet [[Jasnah]] for the first time. He earns her trust, and she asks him to wait for her, giving him a ruby mark.{{book ref|sa1|3}} When she comes out of the Conclave and lets him know Jasnah rejected her, he convinces her to try a third time and helps her find a book merchant. While she was shopping, he came into the shop and helped her get a much better price for the books.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
 
{{image|Shallan and Yalb by Elisgardor.jpg|side=right|width=250px300px|[[Shallan]] and Yalb in [[Kharbranth]]}}
 
His crew is selected by Jasnah for taking her and Shallan to the [[Shattered Plains]]. Yalb helps the latter go underwater to see a [[santhid]], a rare sea animal.{{book ref|sa2|1}} ''The Wind's Pleasure'' later picked up a [[new kid|new member]] for the crew at [[Amydlatn]],{{book ref|sa2|6}} who was actually hired by [[Tyn]] to kill Jasnah.{{book ref|sa2|34}} During a attack carried out by [[Tyn]]'s assassins, a number of sailors were killed and the rest likely drowned when Shallan soulcast the ship into water to try to save them.{{book ref|sa2|7}} As a result, Yalb is presumed dead.{{book ref|sa2|7}} However, shortly after the sinking of ''The Wind's Pleasure'', Shallan sketches [[Shalash]] destroying a statue of herself, despite having no knowledge of Shalash's actions post-[[Aharietiam]]; at the same time, she also does a sketch that shows Yalb and a few other crew members helping each other out of the water near a rocky shoreline. Shallan dismisses this sketch as simply the product of a worried mind, however,{{book ref|sa2|30}} and, when depressed by her role in the death of [[Grund]], thinks of Yalb as dead.{{book ref|sa3|82}}