Rita tilts her head, unsure of what to make of that. 'Compassion' doesn't really fit with the kinds of spirits she's familiar with. But then, just as humans can vary from world to world, spirits might vary just as much...

"Never heard of a spirit like that before. Are there others like you, where you're from?"

It still creeps her out how he just knows what she's thinking. But the more Rita understands about what he is, and where he's coming from with this weirdness, the less disturbing it becomes.