Despite Jace's anger towards him, his heart still clenched painfully in his chest at his words. No...he wasn't a monster and he was being an asshole about this whole thing. Perhaps he wasn't the Basil that he once knew, but they'd been together for more than a decade together and he had grown close to this Basil over the years. Could he seriously throw all of that away so easily just because he wasn't the person he thought he was?

	"Why...? Why were you created to replace him?" he asked softly, looking at the ground. "It wouldn't have been so bad if I'd known the real Basil had died long ago. He thinks that I simply shrugged off his death and moved on with my life without a second thought about it." He couldn't help the few tears that fell. "I know you are practically one in the same...but I abandoned him. Something I promised I would never do."