Wording it that way makes it clearer that it is an assumption by the hypothetical characters. Though based on our previous discussions I suspect that it also reflects your assumption and maybe that’s why you failed to clearly distinguish it from the characters’ assumptions in the OP. At least myself and woozle took objection to it. Of course it is also a possibility that we are both reading impaired.
Wording it that way makes it clearer that it is an assumption by the hypothetical characters. Though based on our previous discussions I suspect that it also reflects your assumption and maybe that’s why you failed to clearly distinguish it from the characters’ assumptions in the OP. At least myself and woozle took objection to it. Of course it is also a possibility that we are both reading impaired.