On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:51:40 -0400 "Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net writes:
Never mind that, if you were trading in someone else's virtue you'd expect to get a higher price for Tarrant's than Vila's.
Avon may have had to think fast on his feet.
1) Avon assumes Egrorian was not the sort of mad scientist who values the monastic life.
2) His insistance he needs to bring someone down with him is actually a stalling technique while he tries to get the warted one to give something away about his assistant.
3) He gives what I assume Avon recognized as a masculine name.
4) Avon instantly realized that, if he brought Dayna or Soolin, he might find much unpleasant attention focused on himself, the new face in town.
5) Avon also realized that, if Tarrant realized why he'd been picked over the others, he would react about as well as Tarrant usually does to these little surprises.
6) He chose Vila.
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Ellynne G. wrote:
- Avon also realized that, if Tarrant realized why he'd been picked over
the others, he would react about as well as Tarrant usually does to these little surprises.
- He chose Vila.
And Vila, you notice, was quite willing to play along, which it's kind of hard to imagine Tarrant doing. I'm not entirely convinced that that *was* Avon's line of reasoning, though, if only because I'm not sure why he would even *have* information about Egrorian's sexual preferences, or be able to so accurately deduce them on the fly. I'm almost inclined to believe that there *was* no good, rational reason for bringing Vila along, but that Avon did it simply because, well, Vila's the one he best likes having along, not that he'd ever admit that. If you look at Avon at the beginning of "Orbit," he's actually acting rather strangely, and not at all his normal calculating self, so it's possible that he simply wasn't thinking things through with his accostumed thoroughness and practicality. (Now, why he's in that weird mental state is another question. Personally, I like to think he'd just recieved word that Blake was still alive and that Orac had located him. But he might have been on drugs or suffering from some weird space disease or something. Or just going nuts, as so many people suggested, although I never quite managed to subscribe wholeheartedly to that theory.)
I'm almost inclined to believe that there *was* no good, rational reason for bringing Vila along, but that Avon did it simply because, well, Vila's the one he best likes having along, not that he'd ever admit that.
I rather like that point of view. And certain Avon could come up with some good rational reasons to convince himself and the others that it wasn't just that he likes Vila's company.
If you look at Avon at the beginning of "Orbit," he's actually acting rather strangely,
Smiling a worrying amount for a start.
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