Fred and Pax
"I will be joining my father," he said, "and I'll be acting as a liaison between the commune and the world up top. Smoothing palms and talking business." Paxton would have loved to go to university, but he was needed at the commune. His father thought he had already wasted too much time with this little detour, even though he had ended up with a valuable ally because of it.
"I'll miss it here, however," he said. St. Margaret's wasn't a snake pit. He smiled wistfully. "And I'll miss Davian. He's grown on my - like a fungus."