When Jeremy was flayed alive (well, barely alive) by the Varich and it seemed like they would never stop hunting him, he was barely clinging to life and broken - Pynki would have sent him on to another life then, where his soul could try again.
But, Anna.
(And then that plot point was just.... swept away, under the guise of 'well, Firnost is safe and they don't seem to care about finding him anymore', sooooooooooo....)