Reminder to self:

It's okay to spill the beans and let the reader know what's going on. You have more than one thing going on in the novel. If you let the reader in on something, it bumps them up to the next level, instead of just removing the tension of an unanswered question.

(This written because it just made sense to me through a haze of sickness. My head feels like it's full of arrow points and even with a thick German blanket on and the heat on, I'm still cold. Today not gud riting day is.)