Penny's immediate reaction to a plume of flames rising up from the grill to startle Jerry? Laughter. Like, he's seriously a second away from going the full Nelson Muntz, with the pointing and the HAW-HAW. To say that Penny's laughter is full of spiteful satisfaction would be completely accurate.
But then he does indeed catch the eye of one of the few people in town who's even taller than him, a well-dressed redwood of a dandy who immediately strikes him as familiar, because... Because...
Fucking Eliot. High King Eliot. The Spectacular? Okay, no, his mind has to be playing tricks on him, because there's no way that guy is the spectacular high king of anything.
...
Damn it, everything's confusing. Trying to make sense of any of it already has Penny scowling, annoyed, as he walks on over to Eliot. CUE RANT:
"You're supposed to be in Fillory, and why do I even know that? I don't even know what a Fillory is!" And somehow? This is your fault, Eliot, as the only person in town he recognizes from someplace else.
Of all the Brakebills students to get stranded here, it just had to be the two who interact the least
time to shit some rainbows
But then he does indeed catch the eye of one of the few people in town who's even taller than him, a well-dressed redwood of a dandy who immediately strikes him as familiar, because... Because...
Fucking Eliot. High King Eliot. The Spectacular? Okay, no, his mind has to be playing tricks on him, because there's no way that guy is the spectacular high king of anything.
...
Damn it, everything's confusing. Trying to make sense of any of it already has Penny scowling, annoyed, as he walks on over to Eliot. CUE RANT:
"You're supposed to be in Fillory, and why do I even know that? I don't even know what a Fillory is!" And somehow? This is your fault, Eliot, as the only person in town he recognizes from someplace else.
Of all the Brakebills students to get stranded here, it just had to be the two who interact the least