Annaka leaves.
...Masozi watches her go, dully, still sitting on his bed. He notices, vaguely, that he seems to be shaking again and that his chest still feels tight and locked-up. It doesn't seem very important, though.
What is he supposed to do now? Is he still a prisoner under guard?
Masozi looks pleadingly over at Lan Xichen.
"I - what - but it matters that Lan Xichen knows all the things? Because he - he's the person who has to figure out what all of us have to do so we can end up doing the stable thing with all the other enclaves...?"
He shrugs. "If you don't want to you don't want to, but offer's open if you decide Xichen-gege doesn't need to know everything."
....Masozi does not, in fact, have zero ability to pick up on subtext.
"....Would it be - a useful thing for you? If I used your power sharer?"
There is definitely some kind of weird baffling subtext going on here! …But it seems like maybe Wei Wuxian doesn’t want it poked at?
And if Masozi has learned any kind of social skill up to this point, it’s that - poking people when they would prefer not that results in - them wanting to execute you???
“…Okay. I - would be grateful for that?”
"Cool. Just hit me up when you want to dump or grab some mana."
"You have to be wearing the power sharer to use it. Here, try it." He puts it on Masozi's wrist.
Masozi takes the mystery bracelet.
Puts it on.
……That’s so much power! He can feel it - right there, so nearby -
- he wrenches the power-sharer off and throws it to the ground, before he can accidentally pull any power from it, because it would be so easy to but he doesn’t want to steal Shanghai’s power or threaten them…
"...okay it's not going to work if you're that freaked out by it."
“What isn’t going to work? I - sorry - I can practice if it’s just that it’s too hard for me - but I don’t know what you want? And I - Lan Xichen would be angry with me if I took all of Shanghai’s mana by accident…”
"I just mean if you throw the power-sharer away you can't put mana in it. --Honestly if you take all of Shanghai's mana by accident I think he would be impressed."
“….I guess I probably couldn’t take all of it? I,just… I could take a lot? And it - seems stupid for all of you to trust me that much? So I - I’m scared that you’ll - change your mind - if I do something wrong…”
He shrugs. "Well, dump mana in until you feel like you've got the hang of it and then try pulling some out."
Masozi nods. Goes and picks up the bracelet.
- Hesitates, again.
"I - guess all the times I pulled mana from someplace outside of me, before, it was from rats? And I - I just found out maybe that makes you crazy? And - also makes all the other enclaves want to kill you? ....I think using this is probably safe but I - it's still scary?"
"...I can put mana in now? I have some - and I already have wards on my room so I don't need to save very much...?"
Masozi very carefully puts in all of his mana, except for a tiny bit that he saves so he can check for mals before going to sleep. He's accumulated quite a solid chunk of it, for a freshman; he hasn't been casting spells most of today, and practicing listening to Mandarin and replicating the sounds, plus taking every reasonable opportunity to use words he knows or can hunt down in his notes, is apparently quite good for mana-building. (Math, frustratingly, is much less so. Probably he likes it too much.)
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