[Oh, yes. Yes, he gets that very well. Oddly, it sets him a little more at ease with this conversation.]

Seems like a typical older sibling thing to do. I can only hope I don't end up doing the same for Hazel.

[There's a sad sigh.]

When a soul's reborn into another life, they have to bathe in the River Lethe. It completely wipes their memories, I think so it doesn't interfere with their decisions in the next life. Achieving Elysium or paradise three times means going to the Isles of the Blest, the ultimate paradise, after all. I don't know if that's what Bianca was planning on doing, but....

[But it was perhaps better than the existence she'd been forced into.]