Cole pauses at Ben's thoughts on unique, because there's a difference between 'not normal' and 'the only one of your kind to ever exist'. But Ben is content to let it pass, so Cole does too.

"Compassion isn't a strong spirit. It breaks easily. But... Compassion was drawn to a place to suffering, to a spirit medium who had been made to live through such terrible things and he was alone, forgotten by his jailers, starving and exhausted and terribly alone.

"His name was Cole. And Compassion reached out to him, because all Cole wanted was to not die alone and forgotten. He wanted Compassion and so Compassion came to him as he died."