"How true," he agreed, leaning back to relax again. Despite how, for all outward appearances, he seemed recumbent and close to dozing off, he was actually quite alert.

He was a master of multi-tasking, and was more than capable of listening to Cole and letting the water soothe the aches the day had brought him.

"A little more than a friend then."

He wondered how a spirit of this world would conceptualize friendship. Cole was, certainly, more complicated than his brethren.

He cracked open one eye, glancing at Cole stirring the water around.

"You can have a bath too, if you like. No one will stop you."