Quentin and Plum successfully steal the suitcase and journal, and hole up in an apartment in New York’s West Village. Inside is a journal with a spell that can be used to create an entirely new magical land, such as Fillory.
A blackbird hires them to steal a suitcase that once belonged to Rupert Chatwin. Quentin takes Plum under his wing, and the two become involved in the criminal world of magic. Plum is expelled and Quentin is fired for this.
Quentin manages to save her, but chooses not to attempt to destroy Alice. She and some of her friends decide to play a magic prank on another student for stealing wine from their club, but the prank backfires when Plum accidentally nearly releases Alice’s niffin. Plum, a senior student at Brakebills, and a descendent of Rupert Chatwin from the “Fillory and Further” novels, looks forward to life after college. There, he becomes a professor of Mending Magic, growing comfortable with his life at the school, but remains haunted by the past – especially by the death of Alice. He ultimately decides to return to Brakebills, to at least exist in the world of magic peripherally through it. Having been exiled from Fillory, Quentin, now nearing the age of 30, struggles back in the real world. “The Magician’s Land” is a young adult fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, is the third part of his “Magicians” trilogy, and which follows the continuing adventures of Quentin Coldwater after his dethroning and banishment from the magical land of Fillory, and his efforts to nevertheless save Fillory once more.