"No, it didn't."

"Okay. So she turns up, reincarnated, on your doorstep - how did the reincarnation work?"

"I was fully conscious of myself even as a baby. It wasn't fun all by itself, and since I didn't fully get what was going on, I was, um, not all that discreet about what was going on. And my new parents...didn't believe me."

"So reincarnation's pretty rare even where you're from..."

"Besides the two of us, there's only one other person we're sure does it."

"Okay. So you were an adult trapped in a full-length childhood with parents who thought you were making things up or worse..."

"And they had me half convinced I was crazy by the time I was eighteen and could legally get away from them."

"Oh, yikes."

"But I managed to find Marie and everything was like I would expect it to be from what I remembered and I calmed down and after a while things were pretty much fine. And then eventually Marie died of old age, because that's what happens when you're physically several decades older than your spouse. And then it turned out one of my old teammates thought she had killed me and had tried to hunt her down for revenge, but he only found us after she had dies. And then decided that as her spouse I must have known about and condoned everything and that made me an acceptable target, which is why we're the same age now."

"And he's the other person we're sure is reincarnating."

"Was he on his second life then or is he now?"

"Now."

"So how did you find out?"

"We met him. He has the same powers again and the same personality. I guess it's theoretically possible that that's a massive coincidence but it seems unlikely."

"And I checked his date of birth and his previous life's date of death and they match up."

"Okay. So how have your current lives been going?"

"Decent. I have the kind of parents who aren't materially neglectful but it's a good thing they got me rather than a real kid who would have required emotional investment, but I am an adult who has access to other resources and such so I'm mostly fine about it. We live a ways away from each other so we don't see each other in person as often as we'd like but I'm staying with her family for the summer, so that's nice. Infancy was awful, childhood was a pain, but that's probably just a result of being already an adult who isn't used to all these restrictions any more. The thing with Gregory--that's his original name--has been the worst shake-up, really."

"...I just realized that if this were a real therapy session then this entire time I would have been monitoring you for emotional spikes but I forgot to ask if you wanted me to do that."

"That's fine. I can sure as hell tell you you would have picked up on some when I was telling you how Helen died, that much is obvious."

"Yeah. Neither of my deaths were fun in any way. Go ahead and do the monitoring thing."

"...I can probably do both of you at once but it'll divide my attention and I will likely not come up with such insightful questions, not that I was doing a great job at that before, but okay, monitoring now, I'll stop if you ask."

"Okay...that's pretty much the situation up to the present day, should we be producing more detail on stuff that's previously been explained?"

"I mean - okay, if I were a real therapist and this was real therapy what would you be hoping to get out of it?"

"I don't really know. I've never actually been to therapy, except for this one time in my most recent life after the incident where I got my powers back--you have to reactivate them after you reincarnate, they don't just carry over--but that doesn't really count because I was so closemouthed about everything and we both knew I wasn't going to get anything out of it because I wasn't being honest with her."