Dana wrote:

Possibly Avon has some degree of clairvoyance ("I always thought his death and mine would be linked in some way") and he's trying to stand back from the carnage he senses in the future.

I don't think precognitive powers are necessary for *that* prediction...

-- Betty Ragan ** bragan@nrao.edu ** http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bragan Not speaking for my employers, officially or otherwise. "Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions..." -- Isaac Asimov