[Bruce can't help but take a good part of Cole's words with a fair hint of suspicion. He said he didn't want to be a demon, but that meant he wasn't exactly denying it either. So, was he a demon that wanted to... help?
That's--Bruce doesn't know what to make of that. It's so hard to believe that when his life had all been ruined by something so similar but yet vastly different at the same time. The irony, of course, is noted.
But the part about her - the Herald, he assumes from what he (whatever Cole was) - has Bruce sympathizing a little. No matter what, losing somebody who could understand you when the rest of Thedas wouldn't... that was a feeling he could relate too all very well. So despite his ever-growing uncertainty about this Cole, the fear he has of Cole talking about his secret out loud, the paranoia that everyone else will see this and know--Bruce continues to speak.]
I--I'm sorry. [He says, because its the best thing he can manage right now, with how much his mind whirls at the moment.] She... deserved better. [Her life had ended all too soon, all too quickly. In the short time where she had been known to all she had brought hope, in some form or another. And to lose that hope - he knows that feeling well too, from his own personal experiences.]
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That's--Bruce doesn't know what to make of that. It's so hard to believe that when his life had all been ruined by something so similar but yet vastly different at the same time. The irony, of course, is noted.
But the part about her - the Herald, he assumes from what he (whatever Cole was) - has Bruce sympathizing a little. No matter what, losing somebody who could understand you when the rest of Thedas wouldn't... that was a feeling he could relate too all very well. So despite his ever-growing uncertainty about this Cole, the fear he has of Cole talking about his secret out loud, the paranoia that everyone else will see this and know--Bruce continues to speak.]
I--I'm sorry. [He says, because its the best thing he can manage right now, with how much his mind whirls at the moment.] She... deserved better. [Her life had ended all too soon, all too quickly. In the short time where she had been known to all she had brought hope, in some form or another. And to lose that hope - he knows that feeling well too, from his own personal experiences.]