Mithos, you don't have to do this to yourself! [Jeb's voice cracks, and this time he can't stop himself from crying.] You can't tell me none of this matters to you, because I know it's not just me you're...

[He can't finish that sentence. Mithos probably knows how it's going to end anyway.]

I'm not going to stay away! Even if you threaten to hurt me. Even if you do hurt me! You've done those things before, and they didn't make me go away... [His voice dissolves into soft sobbing for a few moments, but he does manage to find it again.] ...so nothing is going to make me abandon you now.