Quantum physics? [Quentin's eyes brighten and he smiles, that's a bit surprising. Not that she would know it, but rather that it's not something he's thought about in awhile. Magic and fantasy have a way of making math and science put on the backburner, but he's smart. He liked to question the world, and biology and physics does that.]

You know, the funny thing that no one told me was how much math it took to do magic. [It's why it doesn't matter if someone can do magic, many people have the ability, but learning how to do it is a different thing entirely.] It's kind of like calculating atoms. There's a lot of physics in how the universes works and how we carve out pieces of it for spells.

[Quentin realizes the enthusiasm is back in his voice, taken away from his grief, but talking about nerd stuff does that for him.]

So yeah, maybe that's another way of looking at this world too. Scientifically and spiritually or ... whatever we want to call these powers and glow. [The term honestly doesn't matter. Labels can change.]

I'd really like to see Julia. We didn't get to say goodbye. She's my best and oldest friend.

[Where one of them left off the other one picked up, and despite a time when they weren't together, it didn't end up being that hard to pick up their relationship again. They did have some bonding toward the end, but then she was possessed too. Their baggage at least was resolved, before he died.]

I didn't tell her about this place, or about Teddy. It was like this piece that El and I held onto as ours.