Upon hearing Dawn’s reaction to his mention of speaking to Buffy he immediately regretted telling her. He wanted to avoid friction and no one really wants to hear about past encounters with other women especially when said woman was the girl’s sister. He decided not to say anything else on the matter. Sometimes he could have a real talent for making things worse than they already were.
“I happen to hail from Mystic Falls, Virginia.” Circa 1861,” He almost added. “It’s not a hellmouth, but had a pretty impressive number of vampires, at one point. No demons. We do have witches, though.” He smiled even though all of his experiences with witches had been bad ones. Damon didn’t really want Dawn to find out how much the Bennett family witches hated him and their reasons for feeling that way.