The closest thing she knows of is the golems used by the dwarves, and even then her knowledge is sketchy about things not of flesh and blood made alive. Cole is -- well, Cole is different. He possessed no one, not even an empty shell of a body or a corpse. The smile on 9S is encouraging -- rightly or wrongly -- and Lavellan presses forward with her questions.

"9S," she says, committing it to memory. "I'm Lavellan." Just Lavellan. She tries not to think about that. "May I ask what it is that you do? Or did, back in your world." The salute reminds her of her time in the Inquisition, but he looks like a child, and therefore her brief consideration of what he could have done in his world to elicit that response is exactly that -- brief.