"Two virgin Pina coladas, coming right up!! Fiona, gimme your cup, we don't have enough of them."

"I didn't do your calligraphy and I definitely charge more than a drink for art, even from very pretty girls."

She saw! She's been going to the group therapy Julia hosts, mostly because she was curious and it seemed like an easy enough way to get a better sense of the English-speaking side of the school. It remains a very pretty room.

...also she is just simply going to ignore Nie Huaisang that seems like the best move all around.

"No problem," she says to Silas, and "Thank you," to Julia.

"Well, then I guess the second one is for me," Julia says, giggling, giving one to Ayako and pointedly not giving the other to Nie Huaisang.

That's okay! Nie Huaisang is way too drunk to be bothered by this.

"Was your calligraphy person angry constantly at nothing, constantly spinning his sliderule and refusing to shut up, completely silent and terrified, or completely silent and totally expressionless and also he has a big sword?"

"He wasn't very chatty? Do you mean a literal sword or a, you know, sword. I didn't see his, you know, sword."

Oh wow that's really sweet. She was not expecting it to be that sweet.

"He means a literal sword."

"No sword!!!"

"Right, so that's Wen Ning. He's a sweetheart. He doesn't actually... speak... English? So I'm not sure how you communicated with him?"

This conversation is pretty audible a room over. 

"Wen Ning is VERY GOOD!" Masozi offers. 

"Oh, yes, also he's very good and we all love him."

"He's also the person whose room they're all in."

"He speaks English fine! He might not write it but I wanted the sutras in Chinese anyway, that's how the other kid who did them did it."

"Nooooo he doesn't, he's monolingual in Mandarin. Maybe it was a non-Shanghaier."

Shrug. "Maybe. He didn't say where he was from." She's not totally sure he said anything? He did pretty calligraphy, though. 

Huh.

Weird.

"Here's your cup back, thank you."

"Uh huh! Good luck herding the drunk maleficers!"

"Anyway! Great to meet you, stop by my store sometime, and I think Ayako is gonna walk me back to my room now."

"We should head back too, guys," says Silas, standing up. 

"Okay Mom," half of New York responds, and then bursts into more hysterical giggling.

Masozi totally heard that! 

"Hey! I don't think anyone else but me was ever a maleficer!" 

"Zaizai, please go back to giving Wen Ning a backrub. --Sorry!" he yells in New York's general direction.

Wen Ning agrees with Wei Wuxian about this although he is zero percent tracking the politics.

Julia is going to ignore Shanghai and shoo her clavemates out.

"Alright, Masozi, Huaisang, let's get you two back first."

She is not taking them all in a group even though it's faster, that's too many drunk people per Ayako, but two at a time is faster than one at a time and leaving Masozi near New York sounds like a terrible idea. (Having Masozi near New York in the first place was a terrible idea. Whose idea was that and why were they allowed to have ideas.)