"Oh." Beth sees what he means now, but somehow, it doesn't make it any easier to answer. Why them? Why anyone? She's not sure it's something Daryl understands in that instinctive way; as much as he loves people, he shies back from them whenever he can. Especially peoplle he doesn't know yet. "Because I thought they'd get it."

She gives him a halfhearted look that might be meant to be a smile, a laugh in her voice. "I thought I was alone. I had to make friends."