Raylan didn't speak, but he backed up several steps in surprise. He turned and took his staff back from Herian (or wherever she'd left it), protecting his teammates becoming more important than not spooking the child. He waited tensely to see if the child would calm, listening to the others discuss the boy's fate.

Were it anything else, he'd already be casting a spell to kill it, before it could get too powerful. But this was a child, and that stayed his hand.