Brotherhood of the Wolves - Used and Abused R16-4

[Shocker]

Of course, you’re both absolutely right. Given how little we know about the background, my interpretation is ultimately just speculation.

What I mainly wanted to highlight is that, in my view, the story still works quite well. There’s a certain narrative charm in keeping the world-building minimal and plunging straight into the scene.

Considering how little room we have for storytelling, jumping right into the scene seems like a good strategy for me. I want to be pulled into the story from the first sentence on, so I want the reader to have something to be intrigued about as soon as possible. It's the same reason I usually chose the first couple of sentences for my teaser text. I had to deliberately deviating from that in Woman in red, to maintain anonymity. Which I doubt i managed at all.