Interesting story, one typo “excepted” in the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph should be “accepted”

Interesting is one word. Traumatic and horrific as well. The exposition bits have an interesting style to them though, which I can’t quite get my head around. It feels like a voice for the protagonist as narrator, which works, but it’s still a bit difficult to read in places, especially that first paragraph of exposition stuff, just kind of choppy.