The wondrous sight of Heer’s opulent bed prompts Ranjha to ask about its owner. He is told by the attendants of the boat that it belongs to Heer, the daughter of the chief of the Sials, Chuchak Khan. Waris Shah starts to tease his listeners with an early sense of his heroine’s personality, who hasn’t yet made her appearance in his epic poem. She is intriguingly described as the ‘king’ of the Sial Tiranjan, the gathering place of the Sial women. She is further decribed as a fairy queen, wrapped in fragrance, who is served by all the boatmen of the piers and the wharves of the Chenab.