I don't want to get used to it, [ Cole admits. A little bit of a whine creeps into his voice. ] Broken, battered, halves instead of a whole. I was me. I was a full thing. And now I'm not again.

[ To know where he belonged, to be able to help people and be so much more and then have all that taken away from him just to wake up in a pod somewhere? Cole hates that. He was complete, why would they take him away like this, why would they separate him from the Fade?

He looks down, wringing his hands. ]

But thank you for helping. You always do.