"You're Compassion, but you feel you don't belong there, the Fade? Is that because of Cole?" he asks, his voice calm and neutral as he can make it, though he feels a spark of concern for this spirit. At the thought of this spirit, this boy who must feel so out of place.

It's new to him that spirits might not understand linear time as a norm, but it also doesn't surprise him that ageless creatures like spirits wouldn't be familiar with the concept. He makes a soft 'mm' of interest, and then blinks when Cole clearly says that Onni wants to see if he can cast magic with him and agrees to it.

"Ah." It's all he can get out at first, because he's so surprised by being called out like that, even though it had been in the back of his mind. After a moment, he lifts his chin and meets Cole's eyes, "I had intended to ask politely. Sorry."