In the flashing lights, the mirror dissolves into glass and blinks back again, so that Dany is one and then zero, here and then gone. Only now does it occur to her that there might be something worse than being locked up in a tiny cell. Something a lot worse. There is what happens when all of that stops. Her captors, in leaving her here, might as well have sealed her up in a concrete box and dropped it at the bottom of the ocean. Because Danielle-Jean Munday is going to die in this box, alone.

