There was no helping the half scoff of amusement or the way Raylan tongued his teeth before he looked over, eyes squinted into half moons of hazel. He was caught in it, there was no point in trying to push that as the real reason. Not when it was the first excuse of every battered housewife.

"I got into a fight with someone I shouldn't have," he explains, casual as ever. "Hell, I deserved it. It's still fine." That part hadn't been a lie.