"H-how... how can you talk?" She hears what he's saying and she understands them to be words and somewhere in her brain she even processes what he's telling her, but the fact that he's speaking at all has thrown her off so completely that she doesn't know what to do. He's a walker, but he's speaking and she'd been right up close to him and he hadn't tried to hurt her and for just a second Beth feels like she might faint.

Wouldn't that just be the most horrible way to go? Finally face a walker in Darrow and faint right in front of him.

She can see it in his expression that her reaction has hurt him and that makes her head spin, too. "I need to sit down," she says, then laughs a little hysterically. "I'm sorry." She's apologizing to a walker, but he's been speaking to her and he's new and she doesn't think he's at all like the walkers from home.