[Ah.

He got it right.

How unfortunate.

Baren blinks - and realizes rather immediately that he'd breached someone's privacy. It's not the first time that he's been able to figure things out from someone's demeanor, from pulling from his own mistakes and faults to determine what went wrong because if there's a mistake out there to be made then Baren has made it, but it's the first time that he's laid it out in the open for them to see.]

It's enough for me - but is it enough for you....?

[Logic tells him to stop, but it's hard to recognize when he's found a wound and then simply ignore it.]

I'm not the person to talk to about this. [He recognizes that.] ... but I think someone who would be better at this would agree with me that you could stand to forgive yourself a bit more.

[Because - accidents happen, right? Accidents can have terrible consequences even so. That's what Leo's afraid of - right?]

You matter to Taba-chan. Even if she's mad at you, I think she'd probably punch me in the gut if I didn't at least try to - [make you feel better...?]

... if I didn't try to keep you from making mistakes that I have.

[maybe that's it.]