"In passing. Just that you were one of his friends." Which means a lot to her, and so Lavellan smiles -- kindly, this time, without a twist of bleak humor to her lips or wit. "I appreciate it. He doesn't have many back in Thedas." For people considered him dangerous, a demon.

That Cole has ever only wanted to help, that he was Compassion, seemed to have been missed by those.