Danny lets himself be led. He’s too tired to do anything but follow blindly. Valkyrie is the expert here. She’s the warrior. He’s just some guy.

They cross another chain bridge, almost get to the platform when Gant clambers up a ladder on the other side.

Valkyrie holds out her hand. She grits her teeth, focusing, and that lightning bursts forth. It hits Gant square in the chest, burns right through his shirt, but he never stops smiling.

“I’m afraid you can’t beat me,” he calls to them as he nears. “But if you surrender now I promise to make your death relatively painless.”

“Back,” Valkyrie whispers.

Danny retraces his steps, the chain bridge swaying. He gets to the last platform and looks back. Valkyrie’s hands are glowing white, but instead of firing that lightning at Gant, she grips the chains on the bridge. There’s a snap as they break, and a lurch, and the bridge sags, and Valkyrie turns and leaps as it collapses. Danny catches her.

They look back at the other platform, at Gant who shakes his head in an amused fashion. Calmly, he takes another set of stairs.

“This used to be easy,” Valkyrie mutters. “You shoot someone, they go down. Mostly. This guy … this guy can’t be hurt.”

“No,” says Danny, “he can. I think. I heard it. They were going after this woman, there was a fight, I heard Gant, you know, in pain. Not much pain but … definitely hurt.”

Valkyrie wipes her sleeve across her forehead. Her jacket looks crisp and dry – so unlike Danny’s own sweat-soaked shirt. “Well, he’s not feeling any pain in here.”

“He says he’s master of his domain.”

Valkyrie looks at him. “Maybe that’s it. In this house, we can’t beat him.”

“So what do we do?”

“We take it outside.”

She has another look at the criss-crossing walkways and chooses a new route. Danny runs by himself to the next set of stairs, but she has to help him climb them. When they reach the top, they find themselves on the same level as the door out of here.

Valkyrie leads the way across a chain bridge. Danny comes after her – slow but steady, gripping the chains and making sure his feet don’t slip off the edge. This is the longest of the chain bridges, and it sways dramatically as they traverse it.

“Huh,” Valkyrie says. She has stopped walking, and she’s scanning the area. “Can’t see him.”

Danny stops behind her, grateful for the chance to catch his breath.

“Can you see him?” Valkyrie asks.

Danny grunts, shakes his head, not really bothering to look. All they have to do is get to the platform on the other side, pass through the hut he’d been chained up in, and take the walkway to the door. They are almost there. Almost out.