[Even though it hurts, Barry lets Taako yell at him. The elf shouts in his face, and he just takes it, all that inward pain and fury directed outward, at someone other than himself, the way it so often is with Taako. It kills Barry to see him like this. Shaking and tightly wound, lashing out like a cornered animal, wounded but furious, determined to take the predator down with it.

There's probably nothing he can do to fix this. To help Taako manage his pain in ways that won't push his loved ones away. But he can't just stand by and watch it happen.]

Taako, nobody said anything about forgivin' her.

[He's got his hands up, palms out, trying to make himself less of an obvious threat. Emotions are running high right now. All Barry wants to do is help - but the nature of his help is going to bring hurt. He knows that.] I know damn well what she did. Okay? I didn't forget. All that time I spent alone, that you spent alone, without Lup? That's because of Lucretia. That's not goin' away. I know that.

But no one decided anything without you, Taako. We're not over here gangin' up on you. [It might not feel like the truth, but it is.] What's yellin' at Lup gonna accomplish? Is that gonna make anything better? She's your sister, she's family. And so is Lucretia.

[Maybe appealing to reason is the wrong strategy. But what else does he have?] She never wanted t'hurt anybody. You know that.