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.)

It did not occur to him that he would need to MEMORIZE THE LAYOUT OF THE SCHOOL.

Silas herds New York down the hallway in the opposite direction.

"Awesome!" Nie Huaisang says. "Ayako, you're very pretty."

He was JUST told to keep giving Wen Ning a massage and now he's being told to stop and leave? What? Confusing. 

"....I like you!" Masozi says to Wen Ning, again, and stands up - swaying slightly, this turns out to be harder than he expected - and leans on Nie Huaisang so he can follow Ayako out. 

"I like you!"

"Thank you," she says to Nie Huaisang. "You are also very pretty. Probably we should get Masozi back to his room first, I'm going to need a number?"

"I'm not that pretty. I'll be prettier when I have my makeup."

"I mean yeah everyone looks better in makeup if they're good at it, that doesn't mean you're not pretty now. Anyway, I do still need Masozi's room number?" 

....Damn it what's his room number again. Being drunk is INCONVENIENT, it turns out. 

"....I'm in 132B," Masozi manages eventually. He stumbles against Nie Huaisang. "Sorry. ....Anyway did you know! Wen Ning is LESS SCARED of people when he's drunk! I think that's neat!" 

"That is neat!" 

In the direction of 132B. 

"His behavior doesn't really change when he's drunk? Which is lame. I think he should be giggly and say embarrassing things. I'm giggly and say embarrassing things because I care about the welfare of others."

"I don't think that's why? I think you just feel like it and being drunk makes you want to just do all the things you feel like doing? And I guess maybe Wen Ning doesn't know of things he feels like doing yet, that aren't just...being around us and not scared? ...He did sing along though! Quietly! But still! I was really proud of him." 

"Preferences are admittedly not really his strong point."

"Awww. I'm glad he got to sing." 

"Zaizai, you have great arms. I love your arms. And a really good stomach."

"....Really? I think my arms are just normal. Anyway Wen Ning probably just needs practice at having preferences? I - I wonder if he's scared because when he had preferences before then people hurt him? Like how I get scared if people are shouting and I think they're going to hurt me and want to hide, even though when Jiang Cheng shouts it just means he cares about what happens to me. I think maybe we should figure out how to help Wen Ning practice having preferences? Now that he's somewhere safer where no one's going to hurt him for doing that?" 

- Pause. Masozi stops walking and looks very earnestly into Nie Huaisang's eyes. "....No one from Shanghai would hurt him if he decided to start having preferences? Right?" 

"If they do we can get Jiang Cheng to hit them with Zidian."

Flinch. "As long as they don't actually get hurt! I don't want anyone to actually get hurt!"

"We can get Jiang Cheng to lightly tap them with Zidian."

"And do the thing he does with his eyebrows? I think that's good for looking really scary without actually hurting anyone." 

"Lightly tap them with Zidian and yell a lot and threaten to break their legs but not actually do it, maybe." 

"He would enjoy that a lot."

"I guess so. Anyway how do you think we could help Wen Ning practice having preferences in a less scary way?"