After hearing Deathstroke's words, the cat tilted its head and thought for a while. It discovered a grim fact.
As a member of the Endless, Dream of a Thousand Cats, another manifestation of Dream, had originally been deeply bound to the greater DC framework. There was basically no chance of it running off elsewhere.
Its situation differed from Death's. When Death transformed into a human, she at least had one day every year to wander around outside. The cat could not; at most, it could visit universes like Eternia or Valve's system, which were also within the scope of DC's Hypertime.
But now, Hand of Creation's actions had been exploited by Deathstroke. Multiverse 1, which had originally been about to melt down, had been taken away in the confusion, while the new multiverse became nothing more than a block of wood propping up a table leg.
And because of that, Big Cat could still travel to Multiverse 1. That meant it could rightfully enter the Marvel Omniverse, since its connection to Multiverse 1 remained intact.
Had all of this been within Deathstroke's expectations? Had he foreseen the current outcome long ago and merely gone with the flow? The Source faction had offended God's faction and The Void's faction because of the Hands of Creation's actions, while Deathstroke had seized the opportunity to pick up an entire multiverse for free?
What exactly was he planning?
On the surface, Deathstroke seemed to be running all over the place without doing anything particularly serious. Yet in retrospect, he was the one who had gained the most.
Even the enemy—the Hands of Creation—had been used as knives to cut the cake. Origin Court had acted to maintain Order, but Deathstroke had taken the first slice of cake.
Multiverse 1 was indeed dark, and its