Max quickly finds some peroxide and gauze in the kit and begins cleaning the wounds, though she's looking at Buffy's face as she does it.

"That isn't your fault," she insists, though she's admittedly still a little confused about how the whole Slayer thing works. "You obviously didn't know it was happening, so how can you blame yourself for something that's out of your control?"

That having been said, she knows that that knowledge isn't going to stop her from feeling guilty. So she tries again, taking Buffy's opposite hand and beginning to clean it as she speaks.

"Do you know how it started? Do you think you can get it to stop?"