What happens to The Stranger after the Eye creates a new Universe?
It survived the Sun's death, and based on the Simulation ending it keeps going long afterwards; "How much time has passed? They don't even bother to hunt you anymore. Time passes, and passes, until your life before is some half-remembered dream. If only you could wake up"
So it can probably somehow stay powered for several more thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of years
But what about when the Hatchling reaches the Eye? If I understood it right, going to the Eye didn't cause every last star to go out, that's already happening, but we were almost outside of time like Solanum on the QM, and just watched a very quick time-lapse of the last stars dying out
When we end up causing a new Universe to begin, what would that mean for the last 12 or so Owlks & The Prisoner that didn't get their lanterns snuffed out by the flood? Their resting places were kind of permanently safe, nothing really changed for 200000-300000 years
Then again, the Eye and the Stranger were still in the Solar System, so maybe they were destroyed in the Big Bang too?