hello! thank you for the feedback. You aren't a moron at all, and I'm definitely going to be going back and be changing a few things. This is, of course, not the first draft- but it will be changing constantly until I get it like how I want! 😊 I definitely want it to be a bit confusing though, considering that when MC wakes up, they don't really remember a lot about how they ended up where they are. [Like, how they ended up getting arrested? Why they were just coming out of a trance-like state?] And I want there to be a sense that maybe MC can't exactly trust their own emotions/judgment... There is more going on inside MC's head than first realized, and there is definitely going to be more explanations later on... but at the start, you should feel like you were basically thrown into this situation with no information, because that is technically what happens to MC.
But! Trust your reading comprehension- because I do! If you say something feels weirdly timed/oddly played out and doesn't make sense in the context of the story, then it means it is! And that is on me, and I will definitely be going through it again and making some changes before the next update.
Again, thank you for reading and giving some feedback! It's greatly appreciated. 😊