yeah, I've reread this an embarrassing amount of times and... I don't follow what would be confusing. there's a lot of foreshadowing, biased perspective, and implications involved because it's the very beginning of the story. I think this genre's plots tend to be more... simple? So maybe people are waiting for what's going to happen to be spelled out? But it's just not that kind of game... it has a real plot lol
it's called build-up?