At least she's aware she's not making a lot of sense. The problem with telling Alcide (or anyone who doesn't know what a slayer is) is that there's so much to explain. She'd sort of dived into the middle of it because talking too much about her former life tends to break Buffy, and she's broken enough already today. She'd realized that he wouldn't recognize any name except Dawn's because she doesn't talk about those people anymore, the people who had been okay with letting Dawn die.

She isn't special, not in her mind. She's just someone's pawn. Her main concern in telling him what she used to be, what she used to do, is that he know she's not going to hurt him or anyone else. She'd never hunted the supernatural without any regard to how they lived, not since Angel showed her that not all vampires were monsters and Oz showed her that not all werewolves are animals. Sometimes she wonders about Angel and Oz. Would they have been okay with letting Dawn die?

Honestly, that's why she'd told him, because he lives with her loss every day and he does it so much more gracefully than she does. She'd wanted him to at least understand why she's as broken as she is.

She's as grateful for the lack of platitudes as she is for the strong touch. She really had very few expectations when it came to Alcide's reaction, but she did have hope for how it would go (hope that she wouldn't have without him; it was such a foreign word when she met him) and this is a better reaction then she could have even hoped for.

She smiles ever so slightly at him. "See, you're too good to me." Which is how this had all started in the first place.