Jace stared at him for another moment before answering, "I will stay...until this is done at least." He remained silent for a long moment before a thought came to mind. He'd been trying to answer this question all night long but couldn't draw a conclusion to it. "Tell me one thing, though..." he swallowed hard as a lump begun to form in his throat. "With everything that happened yesterday...will you be able to move past that? Will you still trust me with your life and can I count on you to have my back without stabbing me in it?" He didn't mean to sound so hateful, but he had to know that despite everything, that they still had a functioning partnership. Even if things weren't the same as they used to be, Jace still wanted to know that they were still able to properly work together.

	But why did he care, anyways? In the beginning he had only agreed to do this because he wanted to protect Basil from the dangers of the Deeper South, but now that the real Basil was gone...what was keeping him here still...? That was a question even Jace couldn't figure out.