[Lucretia is right there, forced to listen to this back and forth on the mistakes she'd made, but all Lup sees right now is her brother and the incredible pain he's in beneath that snarling anger. It isn't uncommon for the two of them to fight, but bickering over a blouse or who has to take the dog out never brings anything like this out of her twin. He's hunched, shaking and poised to fight.

It rips Lup's heart in two.]

You don't think she already has?

[Twenty years off of Lucretia's life, robbed off her youth in the blink of an eye. Ten years of loneliness without the people she loved most, forced to hold the knowledge of a hundred year long journey all on her own shoulders with no one to share it with.

Even if Lucretia made those decisions on her own, how was that not payment and then some for what she'd done?

Taako's stance screams 'don't touch me', but Lup steps forward anyway, trying to take her twin's hand. She knows so much about him, can plainly read how upset he is, but Lup doesn't know the full extent of his thoughts, how he was gifted the freedom of the road instead of a family to fall into. Hadn't Lucretia known they'd spent more than enough time traveling with no home to come back to?]

Taako, c'mon. I'm not saying you have to forgive her, but we can't just pretend she doesn't exist. We lost ten years together, all of us did. We're not gonna add onto that by pushing Luce away.