"You wouldn't take that with you forever. If something happens to you though, I live with that even once I'm gone...however I go. I'll be a ghost and still remember."

Max spoke again and Cole went quiet, picking through what he said, watching his expression, that slip of humanity and undisguised empathy...something that felt out of place on someone from his world with that much power, and he settled a bit again. That was something he'd been avoiding bringing up. Because it wasn't about that. It wasn't about him...but the fact that Max understood that simple fact that was fundamental to him went a long way toward easing some of his concerns about the strange man. Not about the danger, but about Max's intentions at the very least. So he stayed quiet.