[Some part of him knows that, probably, but he didn't get this far by blindly trusting. The kids who did are dead, or corrupted, or worse.]

They're different schools of magic. Healing magic comes from faith. I believe, but the Light never touched me like it did other people. There isn't anything I can do about that.

[He blinks slowly, trying to make sense of that. Thankfully he's a smart kid and Cole explains things very simply sometimes.]

That's... [A spirit, living on as a person who died. How very fitting for a spirit of Compassion.] It's sad. [Not in the 'oh that's pathetic' way, but in the way that people dying is sad.]