“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
That's how I ended up with the "storyteller" type of narrator, i.e. a first person narrator that is not necessarily a participant of every scene. See, I am badly anal about this stuff where constructs like these are not logical.