Masozi thinks that's a much less interesting topic than learning a NEW LANGUAGE that apparently half the school speaks and does classes in and which he can't understand at all. He hates not being able to eavesdrop on conversations, and in fact he's already starting to parse some syllables despite himself, just from lurking around the edges of conversations. 

"Oh, like -" and he rattles off a string of Zulu phonemes. 

"Yes, exactly. --You know the school teaches you languages."

"How? I thought there weren't any teachers, and I don't think I could learn it just by reading a book." Though he's already reaching out hopefully for the Mandarin meditation book. ...Oh, awkward, that's a completely different script, this might actually be sort of hard. 

"The language classrooms are enchanted so that they'll talk to you in the language you're learning. But study groups definitely help."

"Huh! That must be strong magic." Masozi is BOUNCING. "I'd be really happy if you were willing to do a study group! I could teach you Zulu if you want. I think it's a 'tonal' language too so it probably wouldn't be hard for you? And the writing is the same alphabet as English." 

"Awesome! I love languages. What track are you going for?"

"...I haven't decided. I didn't know there were tracks until I got here today." 

"I'm doing artificing because I love making shit."

Masozi wants to learn EVERYTHING but apparently the school wants you to focus on one area. "I haven't made anything magic before," he admits. "...I don't think. Not on purpose. I'd like to be able to, though." 

"Oh shoot I'm supposed to trade things. Right. What kind of things can you give us in trade?"

“I can do lookout duty. My affinity is finding mals.” Or at least that is the version of it that everyone in this school is going to get to know. As long as no one has an affinity for mindreading then it should be fine. “I’m very good at it,” he adds. 

"Oh, that's a good affinity, Lan Xichen's going to love that affinity because his sworn brother is maintenance track."

" --A sworn brother is like a husband? Except platonic. But not in this case because they're totally fucking. No, I don't know why he got married in the Scholomance either. Bad idea."

Masozi has not exactly encountered the concept of committed homosexual relationships before, but it’s not any weirder - really it’s less weird - than any number of other things he’s encountered for the first time today. 

“At least neither of them can get pregnant?" he points out. "That makes it less a bad idea." 

"Oh, obviously you're not going to have heterosexual sex in the Scholomance. That's stupid."

It does seem very stupid, but so does not memorizing your ROOM NUMBER and then running off to the library instead of looking for it before curfew. 

Masozi does not say this out loud. He is, after all, benefiting personally from it. Because: LIBRARY!!!!!!! 

"Does your enclave have a spot here?" he asks Wei Wuxian. "I - could help do lookout for them there. If you wanted."

He's already managed to pick up that an enclave staked-out area is vastly preferable to whatever that random kid who tried to recruit him was planning - actually, he's no longer even sure which of the random kids who tried to recruit him had mentioned claiming a spot in the library. 

"Yeah, but I forgot where it is." Mandarin: "a-Zhan where is our fucking spot?"

Lan Zhan indicates an armchair.

"Right, okay, I love you." English: "it's over here."

"Can I trade..." Masozi considers. "I could come in every morning and check for mals first thing? I don't know when people usually come here to work." 

"Actually, you're probably useful enough that I should take you to Lan Xichen and he'll figure out what to do with you."

.....Wait is he about to get an alliance with an enclave. An enclave that speaks an entire new language??? This is - amazing and also really confusing! How does anything work over here. 

"All right," he says cheerfully. "- We should finish looking for your room first though. Can't be that much longer til curfew." 

"Oh, that's a good idea." He heads out. "Normally in an enclave everyone just kind of does what they want, you know, and if you're being an asshole people are going to bitch about you or not help you much or feed you to a mal if it's really excessive. But Lan Xichen has kind of a force of personality so now everyone kind of does whatever he says. He was like that even when he was a kid, you know, he'd just be polite at you and somehow you'd wind up following the rules without even knowing why."

"Wow. ...Is he good at coming up with rules? That seems like it'd be really useful if he were - good at things - and annoying if he wants people to follow stupid rules." 

"I guess it depends on what rules you think are good? Lan Xichen says he thinks all of Shanghai enclave is part of Shanghai enclave including our maintenance-track people and our allies and it's his job to get everyone out alive. Zixun hates it, obviously."