Beth was quiet for a while, trying to figure out how to properly explain it to him. "Because it proves that I'm strong. That I survived something someone else may not have."

She understood that was likely a sentiment he didn't understand, because he may not have ever been treated weak or like a child. "And I thought that maybe people won't think I'm a little girl anymore, if they can see that I'm strong too."

And maybe she wouldn't think it anymore either, but she didn't add that on. She needed her scars to remind herself of the time she had lost the last bit of her innocence, when she could've given in and let the apocalypse finally take her down but she kept on fighting instead.