[ it's strange to think about what might have been. ] It was 2016 when I left. Seventy-five years of Riverdale. It seemed very old at the time. The changes in my lifetime would have been tremendous, or so I imagine.

[ she watches the woman carefully to see if there's any sort of reaction to the year. there's so many people from different versions and times of Earth's history, some of which are closer to Cheryl's time than others. she likes to sort out the when. ]