Avel is fine as far as I know.... except for the raging depression that he suffers from knowing that he is in the same god damned town as Tawnya and hasn't seen her.
Everyone has to die at some point in their life. That does not mean that life has not taken care of them, it means that it was their time to go. Like it will be yours. And mine. Does that mean we have had bad luck? No, of course not. What I am talking about is Karma and I really do believe it exists on a large scale. Doing good and sending out good, positive energy brings back around that good energy in a cyclic way to yourself.
take care of you