I can't decide if that is more or less comforting. The devil you know, and all that.

[An exhale at the mention of daemons.]

As per the Lucian textbooks, daemons are an 'Appellation of organisms infected by a mutant strain of Plasmodium malariae, rapidly distorting physiology and manipulating behavior so as to render their hosts' original forms virtually indiscernible while also dispersing a light-absorbing miasma.'

In more common terms, beings who thrive in darkness and hunt the night. Man turned monster. Nature made unnatural. We called it the 'vanishing disease', until we realized that those afflicted were not vanishing so much as... changing.