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A minor addition, "teacher" can be made to pass the uniqueness rest.
Imagine your 5-yr-old running in the door:
>Mom! Dad! We caught a bug today and Teacher let us keep it

(Later same book, talking to a friend)
Dad: Our son's teacher gave him a bug.
Here, Dad cannot use capital because uniqueness lost

Another example, the Lone Ranger & Tonto walk up to two villains.
Villian: Hey lawman (Addressing Lone ranger as one lawman among many)
vs
Villain: Hey Lawman (Using a common term that everyone in the scene understands who it is)

In this above case, I'll take either as long as it's consistent that no other good guy is also Lawman

Revenge of the Sith (opening night) was my last excursion to the theatres

Heh ShutterStock (where I buy some cover properties) is sneaky. I bought the 5-image pack. Turns out it has an auto-renew and automatically bought me 5 more images back in March

I logged in while working on another cover and found these extra downloads about to expire. It would have kept rebilling me until I caught it on my statement. Although I check my statement monthly, my "usual billers" such as Google, Amazon etc dont get much scrutiny. I mostly check for large bills and unexpected/unrecognized transactions. They could have snuck another 2-3 through before I found it

oki. post & run

I should qualify: I'm not expecting the story to deal with any of these philosophical quandaries.

Right, so to prove the existence of the windows is easy.

1. Ask a friend (I know she doesn't have many) to stand outside.
2. Lean out the window and wave

Now, the most important element is the lean. As long as you stay inside you obey the rules of the tower. By ensuring you are bodily outside the window, you can get into the friend's space with her. You could throw a ball to her right? At the point you see each other there must be a physical line leading from her to the window (or to your body merged into the wall of the tower, which explains a lot as well, just in a different way)

Problem: What if you lean out and wave and she still can't see you?
Also easily solved. Assuming the thrown tennis ball always falls short and you're certain it's not your aim at fault

1. Tie a rope to a solid, inert object such as a bed frame or Ukee
2. Climb down the rope
3. Don't fall
4. While holding the end of the rope, walk up to friend
5. Look back to rope which should now lead to the window (provided you didn't let go)

Will have rejoined anonymously

the no long term immunity is a problem to the herd immunity solution. But the human genome has seen other corona viri... and it's survived x-thousand years... I have confidence it'll figure this out. In the meantime, I'll be sitting in my plastic bubble

Actually, I lie

I would tell him to get rid of it in a debut novel. Anyone who's worked their way to a book 3 (book 5 in your case) will sit through the world building -- even deserves the world building

You've churned a high page count in a short time

ok... given that info, if you're canvassing for opinions mine is leave as is and finish writing the first draft.