[The laughter took Raylan off guard. That was a new one, a new reaction and his head pulled back a fraction with the suspicion that narrowed his eyes a little. Oh. Hallucinations. That, at least, gave Raylan something to work with.

But the sudden scramble startled him and his hand shifted back to his empty hip in an automatic reach for a holster that wasn't there as he pushed smoothly to his feet, back at the ready.

But had this guy known he was a LEO before or after the hand-jerk to his hip gave it away?

Raylan stalked all of two steps before he stopped, eyes sharper and fixed on Will's face. Normally, he'd say crossed arms suggested that the man was settled but the scramble that had just happened belied the thought.]

I think you got a few things mixed up, kid. I ain't leading you or anyone else anywhere. [The height of his eyebrows alone would help put a point how Not your Vergil he was.] I'm not dead, you're not.. Well okay, you look like you mighta died and shown up here, I don't know what happened to you, but the rest of us ain't dead either. You ain't Dante, I'm not Vergil, this ain't.. Okay, I can't promise it ain't but it doesn't seem like Purgatory.. [His expression relaxed and pinched as he thought about it.] Been a while since I read that book...

[ Not that that was the point. ]