I'd hoped, when starting PoE2, that Pallegina would be in it and would be recruitable. She was my favorite party member from the first game. So when I first encountered her and spoke to her, I was disappointed that I could not recruit her and thought that was the end of that. Reading your post has made me excited again that I can actually have her in my party. As a fun aside, when speaking to her for the first time, choose the dialogue that says that her downfall was a result of her disobeying orders. The resulting shouting and cursing is funny.