Barbara hadn't been totally certain how Galen would react, she hoped that maybe she could calm him at the best, she'd feared maybe he'd get angry at the worst. She hadn't expected the way he suddenly clung to her, or the tears. But she didn't try to push him away either.
Hugging Galen just as tightly as he held on to her Barbara allowed him to cry out all of that fear and anger and pain that had been building up in him for all these years that he'd been with his master already, she rubbed an easy slow circle against his back while he cried himself out and only let go of him when he pushed himself away, letting him be the one to decide when he'd had enough.
"Oh yeah?" She asked, pleasantly surprised when he told her that he'd named the flamingo. "It's a good name," She assured him with a smile. "I'm glad he's got one now, he needed one." Especially since the flamingo wasn't going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
And when he told her he was hungry, Barbara finally broke and she laughed softly, ruffling his hair gently. "I'm not surprised if you've only been eating junk all this time." She teased him. "Do you want to come over to the house? I can make us something to eat. You can come too." She added looking over her shoulder to Lucario.