Cho gets hopeful, breath held in her chest, when Cole knows the name of Marjara's clan. But he doesn't know her. Not directly. More of that divergent worlds theory stuff at play - different, but the same. Still, it's close, a connection, a thread that ties him to other things she loves, even if it frays and tangles along the way. Still connected.

Compassion to Despair. Wisdom to Pride. "When Compassion becomes Despair, that's warping? When the mortals around you... feel the positive emotion strongly enough, they can keep the bad one from taking over?" She doesn't know if she has that right, but she wants to understand. It sounds like such a wonderful thing, the way Cole says it, the way the emotion wraps around the words, she wants to much to understand what it means.