"I don't want to stop being Compassion. But I want to be Cole as well. Cole... he wanted so much from life. He thought if he had no magic, maybe life would've been better. So I don't have magic."

It wasn't a choice he had made at the time, but one he could understand now he was more mortal.

"I'm not! I was saying that they were better choices than you used to make. You didn't start this between us. I did." He looked a little smug and pleased. "I started this. And you let me start it."