Naturally, yes- [It is strangely easy to follow where Cole's line of thought goes, as long as he assumes Cole...speaks of who he himself would think of first.

'She' here, well! That clearly means the Ringmaster.] In order to recover, we meditated upon ourselves, to separate what was 'us' from what was 'them'. The Ringmaster then excised that demonic thing from the soul, and destroyed it.

...It was not permanent...but, indeed, it has left its mark upon the past.