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That's fair. The print copy has a cast-page at the very beginning to alleviate that issue somewhat, but in the digital version it would obviously be inconvenient to keep skipping to the beginning, which is why i didn't include it. Fewer characters for this particular story isn't an option in my mind though. the whole idea is to get as broad of selection with regards to how one might react to such events as possible. Current works do have more limited casts.
| Is the story some kind of allegory?
I don't know, you tell me. Authorial despotism is for chumps