"No, not really," he sighed again. "Just, the person I was talking to at lunch mentioned AVALANCHE and didn't tell me who they were. I was wondering." Maybe they were part of the monster-things, a group of them, or something like that.

Come to think of it, that was a good thing to ask on the bulletin board. Maybe he'd go down and write something there, those AVALANCHE people might be a lot of help.