Cole nods. That makes sense to him. Being helped can be really difficult to accept.

"There was a group. People called it the Inquisition. They came together to stop a bad thing from happening, and then to defeat the creature that made it happen.I said I would help. I wanted to help. But the man in charge, Lucien, he was, cold, cruel, carved apart people to watch them work.

"I left. I know I should have stayed and helped, but I left. He was changing me and I didn't want to be changed to Mercy or-" He trails off. If he fell to Despair, there'd be no coming back. "I promised Cole to live the life he never had."