And thank YOU so very much for the kind words, heheheheh~ I'm delighted to hear that the suffocating inexorability of it all came through properly!
By the time you see where everything is heading, and realize just how truly bad things have gotten, it becomes painfully clear:
You. Can't. Do. Anything.
Only a small scattering of options remain, and even the best among them leaves you terribly uncertain and horribly anxious...