"I wanted to be an environmental scientist," he complains, half-hearted. "But I guess this is my life for now."

Elliott angles the laptop toward her a bit more. "I'd guess the memory thing has more to do with reincarnation and past lives, but it weird that we're dealing with both at once. But if it really is all real, I wonder why it's not happening to everyone."

He frowns, thinking about it for a second. "Maybe.. I don't know. Nah. There's no way billions of other people could be just on their first life or something like that."