The thought that Daly had contacted a great being just to find him filled Dunn with fear and regret. For a moment, he blamed himself: If... if I'd gone to see Daly as soon as I returned to Backlund, she wouldn't have recited that Honorific Name.
Unlike the terrified Dunn, Miss Daly was remarkably calm. She rolled over in bed and rested against his chest, then said thoughtfully, "But I did find you because of Mr. Fool's guidance... And didn't you just say Doctor Strange brought you back to life with the Life Stone?"
"Yes..." Dunn looked at Daly's face, so close to his, and wrapped both arms tightly around her, terrified that she might meet a dreadful fate because of him.
"Through a Secret Art used by a deacon of the Church of Steam, I confirmed that the superhero from Roselle's writings is a believer in Mr. Fool.
"Perhaps he really was carrying out a task for the Earth Mother Goddess when he resurrected you, but that doesn't mean Mr. Fool had no hand in it.
"For all we know, They might be allies with a secret connection... Or even different faces of the same being..."
It would have been a lie to say Daly had no worries about the Fool. But as she saw it, her Dunn was already connected to that being, and there was no escaping it. So she was willing to face the unknown fate ahead with him, for better or worse.
Daly's composure helped Dunn calm down. As a former Nighthawks team captain, his memory might have been poor, but his powers of analysis were sound. After thinking it through, he ventured a theory.
"The divine being who blessed me in the cemetery seemed to say She was doing a friend a favor...
"And