Joining the Physical Kids allows Quentin to renew his friendship with Eliot and to meet Janet and Josh. Quentin and Alice are assigned to the Physical Kids, with Physical being the branch of magic concerned with augmenting energy and other natural matter. In Third Year, students are tested to determine which discipline of magic they belong to. Second Year quickly turns into Third Year for Quentin and Alice. As the second year of school progresses, Quentin gets to know Alice better, including the fact that she is a fan of the Fillory and Further series. Quentin and Alice pass, but Penny does not. All three are offered a chance to advance ahead to the second year of schooling, as long as they pass the final exam. Quentin, Alice, and Penny show great potential as magicians. Quentin also meets Alice, a gifted, shy student he eventually falls in love with, and William (who goes by Penny), with whom Quentin has a complicated friendship with. Though initially ignored by Eliot after classes start, Quentin later becomes good friends with him, along with two other students, Janet and Josh. Quentin feels a sense of optimism and joy at Brakebills that is deeper and more fulfilling than he’s felt before. Life at Brakebills is a far cry from the dreary and melancholy life Quentin left behind in Brooklyn. They immediately offer Quentin a place at Brakebills College and Quentin accepts. Under pressure, Quentin digs deep and unleashes magic that impresses Fogg and the other professors.
Nevertheless, and to his surprise, Quentin passes and moves on to the next stage of testing. Quentin finds most of the exam similar to any other exam, but some questions have a strange quality about them. Though reluctant at first, Quentin eventually agrees. Professor Fogg asks Quentin if he is interested in taking the school's entrance exam.
Upon entering the house, he is greeted by a young man named Eliot, who tells him he is at Brakebills College and then guides him through a maze of hedges to meet Professor Fogg. This sets the stage for a course of events that will radically alter Quentin’s life. Quentin closes his eyes and when he opens them, he finds he is standing beneath a hot summer sky, staring across a very deep and green lawn at an old Victorian building. The wind gets a hold of the folded notepaper and carries it into a garden. Quentin follows the notepaper to the garden, but as he enters, everything becomes quiet and the air starts to warm. When Quentin opens the envelope, he finds a notebook entitled “The Magicians,” and a small piece of paper tucked into the pages. Quentin encounters a female paramedic at the scene, and the paramedic gives Quentin an envelope. The person who is to conduct Quentin’s college interview for Princeton passes away just as Quentin is about to arrive to the interview he and his friend, James, are the first ones to come upon the body.
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