That was wonderful. The tone and imagery is really disturbing and overall it was just fantastic. For some reason I like fic like this the best, the kind that's dark and bites into you and won't let go.

I liked the detail about Daniel unmasking for the first time and later saying he had intended to do it voluntarily the first time rather than out of necessity.

and some will survive but the fortunate ones will not That line really struck home for some reason.