Avery poked experimentally at the omelette with his fork for a moment, then stuck in, using the time while his mouth was full of food to think about what he was going to say.
He literally couldn't tell Armaan exactly what happened, because the same thing would happen to him as had happened to Lyra, and his boss. Armaan just would not be able to believe him, and it would affect how he reacted. So he had to be vague, and not name names.
"I wrote something about someone and they got pissed even though what I wrote was true, and now Lyra thinks I'm a liar and my boss is gonna fire me." Lyra liar pants on fire, Brody had said. Little creep.