Avon and Mellanby Perhaps Avon is contrasting Mellanby with Blake. When attempting to take over the London Blake tells Avon he is acting because the Federation destroyed his family and gave him tranquillised dreams, while Hal Mellanby, under not dissimilar circumstances, goes into hiding. Even taking the fact that Mellanby has a child, and Avon is a professed disbeliever in Blake's cause, he would probably sympathise more with Blake's attitude than Hal Mellanby's (and Kasabi's daughter was a teenager, and involved in rebel activities). As for Avon's reaction to Muller's widow: he might well feel he is unable to handle the situation appropriately - there might well be unresolved issues over Anna Grant's death.
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