"Okay, so it's kind of what I thought already - a bunch of people, a lot of whom happen to be gay, pulled into a world that maybe used to have a plot and an author but doesn't anymore. But like--Proud Immortal Demon Way was like that because you died, and showed up in it. But no one here is the author, I don't think. Unless--woah." He drinks more wine. "Maybe Aornis¹ is the author, and she like, regrets ever writing whatever bad fanfic this is and is trying to undo it?"

¹ Extremely nonlinear ping!