[ Poor cat, though he's quietly grateful for its brief disruption. He sticks his hand out again, rewarding the feline with scratches under its chin. ]

...The mother was reborn as a malak as well. So it doesn't only apply to unborn children. It doesn't happen ordinarily, I don't think. Humans are sometimes reborn as malakhim, that I know for certain. As for how or why, it's unclear. Possibly there's a higher likelihood among humans who possess a great amount of resonance.

Well, that's just an educated guess by one of my friends. He's a much older malak, about thousands of years older. Most of what I learned about malakhim comes from him.

[ Because he can't take all the credit for his explanations. If it weren't for Eizen, he wouldn't have been able to learn about his own race. Honestly, there's still a lot that he's learning about himself. ]