Sometimes helps don't happen all at once. Sometimes it's gradual. This...is probably going to be very gradual. Still, he can help. He'll still be there. That's what he's for, after all.

At Lavellan's question, Cole pauses. How is he doing...it's not something he really thought about intensively. He misses his familiar, that much is obvious. But aside from that, Cole thinks he's doing fine. Lavellan and Solas are here. He can help. He's helped a lot in Wismuth, to be honest, and those brief moments of happiness are enough to keep Cole going.

"I'm doing well," he definitively says. Because he is. He's doing well. And he's glad he's doing well enough to begin with.