If it were someone else, Ben might interject that there isn't anything wrong with unique, that he in particular doesn't know how he would ever relate to or befriend someone who was profoundly 'normal'. But he really does want that explanation, and is worried saying something might send Cole off on a tangent. And besides - Cole already knows he is thinking that, right? Or that he's feeling it at least.

"I'm with you so far."

The idea that a spirit like that could exist would have thrown him for a loop at some point, but he's been in the Anchor for a little while. Just because they haven't got something like Compassion on Earth doesn't mean that's true everywhere and everywhen. Apparently Thedas is a place where there's a spirit world called the Fade, and Cole's some sort of avatar of compassion. Which gives him some kind of emotion radar to tell him when people are having a shitty day.

But it's more complicated than that, and that's where Ben's understanding falters. So he folds his hands together, leaning in a little, and waits for Cole to continue.