[i]	"You have every right to ask anything that you want," Jace said a little more angrily than he meant to; of course he wasn't mad at Basil, he was mad at himself. Mad at the entire universe. He slowly came to a halt and stared at the ground. "I want to take a break here," he said as he helped Basil off his back and helped him sit down on a fallen log near a small, half dried up creek. He sat down on the log beside him but didn't dare look at him as he stared at the ground beneath his feet. "This isn't fair. None of this is fair, dammit!" Before he realized what he was doing, he punched the log a nearby tree as hard as he could. A sickening crack filled the air around them but he didn't feel any pain aside from the one in his heart. "I should have been there for you like I was supposed to, then none of this would have happened. It's my fault, so why ain't I the one dying?" He didn't realize the tears scarring a path down his cheeks.
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