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Don't apologize, I confused word cruft with Natter sometimes too.
"Now it's starting to feel like a game!"As I understand it, it is ok to do what they did in the example above, it is not ok to ask the question and not answer it yourself.
From that page you linked: "Don't get the whole thing started by using a rhetorical question unless you immediately answer it yourself."
I would keep it as is unless it is overused.
Edited by Asherinka Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.

I realize the question itself might be phrased poorly, so I'll elaborate. Every once in a while I see examples where the writer chose to ask themselves a question then answer it, as seen in this example from What If…? (2021) (spoilered because it's a new show)
The final battle has Captain Carter and her Howling Commandoes assaulting the HYDRA fortress Castle de krake in order to defeat the Red Skull and save the world. Red Skull is able to use the regained Tesseract to open a portal and summon a Kraken to destroy the Earth. The Kraken's first action? Kill the Red Skull!
Is this kind of phrasing okay, or is it Natter? I know it annoys me personally, but I don't wanna go deleting or editing things willy-nilly just because I have a pet peeve.
Edited by Afterword