He takes the offered notes absent mindedly, expression curious. "You used to think you were supposed to, but you weren't?"

Anders has been working on the assumption that the mix of boy and spirit wasn't too dissimilar from what he could have become if he'd been younger and more broken. If he'd let a spirit in while in solitary, for instance, or just after they'd taken Karl from Kinloch Hold. But he'd always needed sleep, despite how it seemed overly long and wasteful to Justice.

"You're more spirit than boy, anymore?" It's not purely Compassion standing before him, he's nearly certain. Despite how Cole is often clearly not quite human any longer, there's still humanity to him. He's not quite like the other spirits Anders has known.