The longer he waits, the worse this feels. He wonders what Yuan must think of him to do such a thing in Zizhen's presence. He must think he has no respect for the other boy at all!

"But.." He was supposed to be..? "How 'not clothed'?" He asks innocently. Surely Yuan didn't mean they were to take everything off. Did he? They weren't animals! Well, he was sometimes, he thought with shame. Last night, he'd waited until the issue had very painfully gone away, but he thought that was part of his punishment for being a horribly sick person.

"There's.. a process?" He asks, uncertain. He glances back up at the building. "Would you maybe explain it to Zizhen too? Not now! Just.. I don't want him to go back to Baling without.. um.. without doing this correctly."