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Introduce one or more characters who know less than the readers. It's not a bad idea to always have someone in every scene who knows less than the reader, or to have some characters who are in the dark about parts of the story and others who are in the dark about other parts.

If you really can't figure out how there could be someone who doesn't know something about the scene, then perhaps the reader doesn't need to know it either.

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