[And his mother had preferred the house in upstate New York to the busyness of London, and sometimes he can't even blame her for it. Even his stepfather's more outlandish paranoias, resulting in bomb shelters under the house, had served as a groundwork for something much larger years down the line. But that's too complicated. Estranged parents? That's rarely anything too surprising.]
Though I'm more...acquainted with Oxford. Or its pubs, at any rate.
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[And his mother had preferred the house in upstate New York to the busyness of London, and sometimes he can't even blame her for it. Even his stepfather's more outlandish paranoias, resulting in bomb shelters under the house, had served as a groundwork for something much larger years down the line. But that's too complicated. Estranged parents? That's rarely anything too surprising.]
Though I'm more...acquainted with Oxford. Or its pubs, at any rate.