[ Bros who gurt together, stay togurther. It probably is the single best hug he's ever received in his life. He doesn't get many hugs, to be honest, weirdly no one else really wants to risk it.

He just shakes his head at the "was she evil" question. He doesn't have the most insight of all of them into what she did, exactly - from his perspective it was a bit of a blindsiding and he's only started putting the pieces together, but he really doubts Lucretia's capacity for evil. Figuring out what went down, and why, isn't incredible difficult to logic out. It's possible to tell the question shakes him a little because he doesn't seem to care all that much about being 'gurt smeared.]

Um, nah. Not evil. [The opposite. Taako himself doesn't exactly have the credentials to be able to easily explain the concept of loving your dumb family so much you'll do anything for them, though. Voicing that sort of thought requires a few more levels in Emotional Intelligence he just doesn't have.] Like I said, our plan. Hm. Went kind of off the rails. She . . . uh, tried to fix it for us. I don't know, maybe she'll wake up and you can interrogate her yourself?