"Oh that idea is good! I will say it next time the week is quiet."

That's not great! Things keep happening! Song Lan is dead! They're adopting Masozi! Jiang Cheng threatened Nie Huaisang's boyfriend with a purple electricity whip at lunch! It's going to be months before his store is announced!

"Shanghai is rich, we don't need help." The 'fuck off' is unstated but obvious.

"I think morning announcements are a charming concept."

"OK! I am joyed your freshmen have many enough objects."

"What is your name, person who has a shop?"

Meng Yao please look at her or make stressed eyes or nod or something, she is very deliberately asking your permission before she tells this guy anything.

"Nie Huaisang! 278B."

...Yeah sure he'll see what she does with it.

He nods.

"Shanghai's adopted a freshman fairly early this year, that might be relevant? --not me, I'm from Kyoto, but Masozi, he made it to the Scholomance without learning a single spell from anyone else and he's learning Mandarin incredibly quickly." 

"Well, not quite adopted," he says with a smile, "we haven't decided to ally with him yet."

(The junior saying this doesn't have a powersharer.) 

"Oh that is unlikely! Very good luck of him!"

Masozi is probably the black kid - and if he doesn't have good mandarin yet he should not talk to him in Mandarin.

"Hi, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you'd just started learning Mandarin. I'm James Holden, is there anything that you need?"

Masozi has been quietly confused about this interaction and was planning to ask Wei Wuxian about it later. 

...In general there are lots of things he needs? He doesn't have the slightest idea why this random student is asking, though, or what kinds of things he has on offer, or what he would want in exchange. 

"I don't really have anything to trade," he explains. "Except lookout, I guess, my affinity is finding mals." 

Hopefully this wasn't completely the wrong thing to say? He tries to catch Lan Xichen's eye. 

Lan Xichen is over there not paying attention.

"I am trying to make sure all the freshmen are settling in well and have anything they need that it's easy to get them. And have friends and emotional support and won't go all maleficer when they are seniors."

"Shanghai has it taken care of," she says, in lightly accented English. "But it seemed interesting and relevant and I wanted to share the good news, since you're so concerned about all of the freshmen!" 

What does 'emotional support' even mean? 

"They gave me clothes," he says. "I think I'm doing fine." 

"Alright! I am glad you are helping him."

He stands up and goes to find some less fortunate freshmen.

"And I taught you the International Phonetic Alphabet!"

"Has it occurred to anyone that Masozi has concerningly low standards?"

Masozi has no idea what this is supposed to mean or imply, and says nothing. 

Would it literally kill Nie Huaisang to not say that in the actual cafeteria. 

....of course, it wouldn't literally kill Jiang Cheng not to threaten people with electricity whips either, and that doesn't seem to stop him. 

"- Everyone here is really nice?" Masozi says, uncertainly, because he's not sure if this is going to be weird or tense otherwise. 

"This is concerning! He's all like 'the Scholomance is very safe, Jiang Cheng is a nice person.'"

"Hey!"

"Apparently it gets more dangerous later, but it could get twenty times more dangerous than this and it'd still be better than Malawi!"