Masozi is escorted back to his room, and half-collapses on his bed, next to his mesh-covered drawer full of shit and dung beetles. (It kind of makes his entire room stink. He hasn't previously minded this at all.) 

He has wards, but he still feels in danger. And he doesn't dare do anything about it; he doesn't dare cast any spells at all, not even to look for mals, because what if that's against the rules and it makes this even worse? Also he's not sure he could concentrate well enough to cast anything in the first place. 

He's so scared. If Sophie is dead then - someone else must've killed her - and they're never going to believe that, it'll make things worse to even say it, and so he can't - 

- he should have been there he should have kept her safe - the fact that this is a completely unreasonable thing to have attempted to do, given his resources, doesn't make it hurt any less -