angst royalty / @andfurther !
FILLORY. QUENTIN’S saving grace through all the dark periods in his life. he understands why margo and eliot conspired to bring him here after everything. after quentin came back from death and wasn’t exactly as euphoric as everyone thought he should be. and he didn’t necessarily disagree with them. but it also felt like a lot curled up under his chest without anyone to talk to about it. MAYBE to alice, but things were still... strange between them.
SO FILLORY. where he isn’t really king anymore ( apparently there’d been a whole moment there with a dark king and the end of fillory while he’d been dead; he wasn’t sure he understood it all ), not really. but it does feel like a version of home for him. maybe it can fix him. he’s only vaguely people-watching as the castle comes and goes, a half-forgotten cup of wine curled in his hand. the face catches him subcociously first, not realizing what it is about her that makes him glance up. and then he sees her. REALLY sees her, and before he knows what he’s doing, he’s standing.
❝ ora, ❞ he says with shock, the name out of his mouth before he can stop it.