Jeremiah2002

Mister Smith:
I read a book once. It said that we'd reached the end of history. That everything big or important that was gonna happen had already happened. If that's true, maybe the years since the Big Death was like the world resetting itself. Now history's starting all over again. I think that's maybe why my watch started up again. There's a word in Latin for it. I heard it once a long time ago. For the time between when a king dies and the new king takes over. Inter-something-or-other.

Kurdy:
Interregnum.

Mister Smith:
That's the one. Maybe that's what the last sixteen years have been. An interregnum.