As you bravely step forth, a gust of wind pushes you off balance. You stagger along with the wind until you find yourself in a swampy area. You are sinking into the mud. You cry out for help but no one could hear you in this storm. Suddenly a spectre appears beside you, extending its hand towards you.

You grasp at the ghost's hand.

You recoil in fear and continue to sink.

The question is open whether our meta-discussion forms a 'story', and also how the story and the meta-discussion come together in one larger unity, and if so what kind of unity it is and whether it must or can be a 'story'.

If that's what all this is about, we seem to be proving the opposite of what we set out to do. I don't see any intertwining, or any necessary accompaniment of story and meta-story, just a collection of reflections

Are they random? And we aren't done yet.