I do mean it! Why wouldn't I?! [He maintains direct eye contact with Mithos.] Even if the promise I made back then means nothing to you, it means everything to me. Even a partially fabricated me is still me, and it's something real I took from that. I can't possibly be friends with Lloyd if he's hurt you so much. Even if he's a kind person, I can't do that.

No one deserves to be all alone, and to have nowhere to return to. I don't know what he did to cause that, Mithos, but whatever it was... I can't imagine myself agreeing with it.

[If he knew what Lloyd had done was take Mithos' life, he'd be even further against it. Jeb doesn't even want it to come down to that with Donovan...]