"Yeah, just woke up, got sent to work." He didn't get the treatment and explanation that most people get. He was just thrown into the deep end. From one frying pan back home into this new frying pan. Sookie had just lied to him and run off with Bill (again). Alcide's heart is in knots over that betrayal. And now... now he's lost half of himself, the wolf half. He's decided to focus on the latter.

Her admission that she has a part of herself missing too makes exhale a breath he'd been holding. He's not the only one that feels as if his insides have been carved out. "The wolf parts." He whispers to her, hoping that she won't be afraid of him. After all, he's effectively been separated from that even if he isn't a violent wolf unless he has to be. "You?"