In any case, Avi is being true to his models.

He called Avi and me, told us you were in some kind of danger.

Look, Avi, maybe that report you have is a little on the thin side.

She was exactly the kind of girl his father would have hated, Avi knew.

Avi paused for a moment to let that rest on the table.

Bad trait for someone in his line of work, thought Avi.

Which leads to the question: why is Avi doing it?

This is never a difficult question to answer when you are hanging around with Avi.

Avi looked up at her, trying to collect his thoughts.

Suddenly he has come up with a new hypothesis: Avi is actually root@eruditorum.org.

Avi sat smoking at a corner table near the bar, by himself.

Randy had learned to deal with it, which is why Avi called him at times like this.

"Did Avi give you any kind of rationale for this?"

When he was young his sister gave him the nickname "Avi."

Overly familiar, thought Avi, using my first name like that.

Avi shouldn't be telling you or anyone else in the press what I'm doing."

That was to be expected from an historian, Avi judged.

"This probably looks weird to most of you," Avi says.

"We all need to decide that question for ourselves," says Avi.

"Well, if that's the case, then this could actually be kind of significant," Avi says.

Avi scored in that season 10 goals with his actually last year as a player.

It should have been infuriating, but Avi was used to that.

But part of the reason he's irked is because he knows Avi saw right through him.

Even if he didn't know Avi, their surroundings would give him a hint.

"That's going to be really difficult for him to do, Avi.