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It's been a long, exhausting day, but also probably the best day of Masozi's entire life. He's filled half a notebook with Mandarin characters and notes on them, he's learned about GEOMETRY, and Wei Wuxian is teaching him some sort of complete phonetic alphabet which is incredibly cool. He's even learned a few new spells, and he hasn't come under attack by mals even once.

He stays glued to Wei Wuxian after classes, except for a brief detour to go to the bathroom to get more water for his room - and nab some more mal grubs for his growing collection while he's at it - and then joins the Shanghai enclave at dinner. He of course mostly doesn't understand the Mandarin conversation, but he's starting to do much better at picking apart the syllables and even recognizing some words, and it's wonderful just being around people who want to help him.

Masozi shuts his door and, for lack of a way to lock it, drags the desk over against it.

And then sits down on his bed and tries to think.

Probably Lan Xichen doesn't, actually, want him to do maleficing again. It...doesn't seem like his style. Though of course that's putting an awful lot of weight on his assessment of Lan Xichen as a person, who he only just met.

If they do ask him to pull malia again, he can - just say no? And then Shanghai will stop giving him any help and he'll probably die, but...if he used malia he would die anyway. Right? At the very least, he has to hold off until graduation or just before, so that he has time to get his baby sister before he slowly goes crazy and then rots from the inside.

...If Lan Xichen wants to have sex with him, then– no, he can't possibly, when they met Masozi smelled like garbage. If he did, though, that...would still be better than dying. And honestly better than having to do all the maintenance shifts or something, like he's heard some other kids do for different enclaves.

Now that the terrifying yelling kid is gone and he's had a chance to calm down, he thinks that probably things are fine actually? And he should just - figure out how to help Wen Qing's brother and Nie Huaisang and Yanli survive, and earn his clothes and his wards that way.