The way that Cole speaks about being a spirit and then a person and a spirit again, says he remembers them like that's unique, makes Onni think that perhaps there is some difference between spirits in his own world and those in Cole's world. Still, there are also a lot of similarities, and Onni finds it fascinating, he can feel the curiosity, the academic interest, stirring in him. And the anticipation, the excitement at the concept of being able to speak to a spirit in the way he's speaking to Cole.

"I thought that might be the case, about the Veil. Is the Fade the world of the spirits, where you come from?"

He can't help the curiosity in his question, because spirits and religion have always fascinated him.