"Yeah. Feel free to spite any grandmotherly nuns you meet."

Giggle. "They're not so much a problem where I'm from. And one of my actual grandmothers is dead and the other one lives...far enough away we don't visit often."

"It must be weird getting a new set every few decades."

"This is only my second set, so I don't have a lot of accumulated experience."

"I barely even interacted with my grandparents when they were alive, but it would be super weird one day to wake up one day and have replacements."

"I mean, all things considered, it didn't even make my top ten list of weird experiences."

"Top ten being?"

"Mm...I haven't really stopped to sit down and order them, but off the top of my head ten weirder things were getting my powers in the first place, having Helen show up on my doorstep eighteen years after she died, having my original mom and little brother die while I was at school and finding out after half an hour of trying to ask people why there was a police cordon outside my house, being an infant again, finding Milliways, finding out Helen-as-Beatrice had died by finding her obituary on the internet, walking out on the super scene and trying to get my shit together after Helen died the first time, fielding questions about our relationship from people who wanted to know why I was married to someone several decades younger than I was, and seeing Gregory in his new body for the first time."

"Okay, those things are all pretty weird. ...And traumatizing-sounding."

"I mean, getting Helen back was pretty great. And being an infant again was better than the alternative. And Milliways has been unambiguously awesome!"

"That's good, then!"

"I have not lived the happiest life, though, no. You wouldn't want to have met me seventy years ago or so, I was a real mess of issues."

"Well, seventy years ago I was a famously levelheaded fire Avatar with a degree in psychology, maybe I could have helped, but oh well."

"I wish there was a therapist I could trust with this reincarnation stuff."

"Maybe if you wait here long enough?"

"Maybe! That is actually not an application I had thought of for this place but it's a good idea."

"Unfortunately you got the Avatar who has basically dispensed with formal education in favor of reading, travel, hands-on job experience, and attention to current events."

"I mean, it's not a bad plan, given the givens."

"I agree. I mean, I liked school all right, but I self-motivate very well and don't find teachers add much for anything less immediately physical than bending, for which I do have tutors."

"I dropped out of school not long after Mom and Kevin died, but I'm probably going to go to college this time around."

"What are you going to study?"

"I'm honestly not sure yet, but most jobs these days want some kind of college degree."

"In my world you can usually get by with a technical cert for most careers... Not going to run with the superpowers thing?"

"Mm, I might, but I did that last time, you know? One of the benefits of more than one life is that I can try on more than one career, figure out what really suits me."

"I'd think the good money would be in leveraging your unique supernatural abilities in some intelligent fashion, but perhaps you've left yourself a lot of money."