Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, the latest incarnation of the Divine Pairing, recurring guardians of New Orleans, were truly a study in opposites. One male, one female. One black, one white. One from a wealthy background forced to live in a church to hide from the police for a crime he didn't commit, one starting out poor and living in the same church but now finding her future back on track. One with power over darkness, one with power over light. One who could evoke fears, one who could inspire hope. Yin and Yang. Cloak and Dagger.

And as the two of them met again in the church so much of their complicated relationship had revolved around, exulting in the fact that they had saved the city and taken down the evil Roxxon Corporation, in far-off Wakanda, the Mad Titan Thanos snapped his fingers, and another way the two of them differed swiftly became evident: one was alive, and the other was not.

And as screams of anguish and despair echoed throughout the city, and sirens and frantic emergency broadcasts filled the air, the last person in the church stared at the pile of ash where their partner had once been in disbelief, slowly realizing that they had been fools to think that their cycle would be any different from the others, that they could save the city without one of them being forced to give up their life.

Destiny can never be denied.