"Ummm...yes, but not in like, a ship or space or anything," Quentin said, arranging his stuff as they talked -- some clothes in drawers, a few pictures on top of the dresser, things like that. "My planet is called, um, Earth. And there's a place called Fillory that you can get to through magic portals? I guess I'm actually not sure if it's on Earth or not, but the stars are different, so I've always assumed it wasn't. But things in Fillory don't really work the same way as they do in most...realms, that seems like a good word."

This was nice, this was comfortable enough. Just talking to someone, getting to know them, with very little opportunity to embarrass himself so far.