'I'm Cole' he'd said. Like a simple truth, an answer to who and what and how he was. Demons aren't so certain, aren't so pure. Too much of humanity in them was the theory but Adelaide has never had enough desire or opportunity to study the differences. She has Compassion, they were enough.

"I- you can hear them?" That was rare- other mages can, yes, but. He did not seem much like a mage. Fear and guilt, frustration and bitterness, she felt and hammered down and away to be used another time or not at all. They want her to be kind and- she tries. It's not easy.