Summary

Chapter 7 – On the voyage home, Benedict does not warm up any toward Quentin as Qunetin hopes will happen. He asks Benedict how his field experience in mapmaking has been. Benedict explains it is hard, difficult work that is mathematically imprecise. He observes a map that Benedict says he has copied from the embassy, which shows After Island in the Eastern Ocean. Quentin orders the ship to change course for After Island. Quentin and Julia talk that evening. She feels as if Quentin had abandoned her in the real world. She explains she feels less like herself every day, and that being away from Fillory makes her remember things, though she does not want to return to the real world. She explains that everything that happened to her will one day be revealed to Quentin, but he must earn it...