[His lips curl up in a snarl. How did Rafael not get it?]

A nightmare is what I was supposed t'be. A cheap replacement. A hollow mockery of a human being.

[Which is all the more reason he couldn't be part of Rafael's happy ending. Such lofty dreams did not befit his base nature. All he needed was confirmation - to hear it from Rafael's mouth that all this was over, and he could bury it with the rest of his heart. He'd have no ties left.

Mournful, he looks away. Out into the dark sea instead.]

I was never real. Not a single part of me.