In the pause before he answers, Cole turns, begins heading back toward the healing tents. Anders will want to get to back to work soon. They all will.

"Pieces. Parts. One thread at a time, until I started to see the picture." He has to think back, to before the Herald, before the Templars, before Rhys. It does seem that it came to him in stages.

"I was almost me by the time the Herald came, but only almost. I'd thought I had to follow the Templars so they could kill me if I went wrong again. She opened the door to something different. I think it was always there, but I hadn't seen it."