"My memories. Our memories. Just because I remember doesn't mean I'm suffering. I helped Cole. Not enough, but I helped. He didn't die alone."

Cole frowns slightly. "I don't know how to be Compassion. I am." You might as well tell a rock it was bad at being a rock. "I feel the suffering of everyone. But it's not my suffering. It's theirs. I feel it so I can help."

That's what a spirit does. The fact that he's not just a spirit hasn't changed Cole's opinion on it, though maybe it really should...