"Astonishing," says Rose, looking at the Thunderbolt. "It has been a long time. Since you aided Richard Occult to save Earth's mystics from Stalker, I'd wager."

She says it conversationally, but she knows both Jay and the Thunderbolt will well remember that was when Occult sacrificed his own soul to stop Stalker ... and when she sacrificed part of her own to save him.

"Dr. Fate, steadied by myself and Ms. Marsters, will transport us to Atlantis. Young Jakeem, you and the Thunderbolt will be charged with protecting us from the ocean's depths, and to act quickly should things go wrong."

She doesn't need to say that things inevitably go wrong.