9S looks away, rubbing the back of his head, cheeks warm. It's kind of weird being encouraged like this. Somehow, it's even weirder coming from Cole. "...Thanks."

He almost doesn't dare to hope -- things have a way of collapsing around him -- but he knows from the very depths of his being that when Rita offered him a place with her for a while in her world, he wants nothing more to accept it.

There's nothing more to be said about this segue, so 9S refocuses on the main quest issue at hand. "You couldn't do that memory stuff before, right? Did you have a run in with one of the missing people?"