"Oh, okay. I see what you mean. Yes, that sounds like it'd provide for a number of plot hooks, so to speak."

The angel smiles and looks down at their papers for a moment.

"Well - I think that covers everything, at least mechanically speaking! Did you have any last-minute ideas, concerns, questions?"

"Thank you!  And - I'm saying it now so that I'll remember it in Villarosa - I'm really expecting I'll be happy with all these choices."

(She doesn't mention the "after I forget that I actually chose Epic.")

"I don't suppose you mind if I tell Kiri - or someone else - about you, eventually?"

The angel smiles.

"I'm glad to hear that!"

And then they look thoughtful.

"I don't personally mind, but I can't offer any specific prediction on whether you'll be believed. Nobody else will have any memory of their past lives - if you'd like, I can put in a request for there to be some sort of magic that allows people to discover if they had past lives and recall them, but it'll be pretty difficult for any plot-important characters to do that during the main story. Afterwards is fair game, of course…"

The light in the room - dims slightly, gets a little warmer in tone. Behind where Lila's sitting, a comfortable little cot-thing instantiates. It doesn't have any blankets, but it does have a pillow.

"We typically slot the recall in right as you're waking up - it can be from a head injury or dozing off in class, but typically it's first thing in the morning on an otherwise regular day. For this reason, most find that lying down and closing their eyes helps with disorientation. And - just remember, since you're going to be In Character, it'll be hard to go against the grain of how your canonical counterpart would behave. The compulsion will be variably relaxed based on your, ah, proximity to the plot, being stronger during loadbearing scenes and weaker when you're doing something irrelevant to the greater story, but - many reincarnators are surprised. It doesn't change your thoughts directly or actually force you onto a course of action, but aside from that, it can feel pretty, well, compelling. Have you ever heard the saying 'fake it until you make it'? Fortunately, if you play things right, you'll be able to 'grow' back into the sort of person you want to be."

The angel gestures at the cushion.

"Take however long you need to prepare, and once you're ready you can lie down there. I'll stay here until you're off."

"Do make it possible to bring back past-life memories?" Lila says.  "But not easy.  I don't want it to be a regular part of the story... but if we want to make it go that way, it can, since I'll already have mine."

She rises, curtsies deeply to the angel, and lays down on the bed.

"Tomorrow, in a new story," she murmurs to herself.