So it is. Which is actually just... Wow. Such a relief.

Sam relaxes a hair and waves it off with a soft apology.

"Sorry, I thought you were someone else for a moment. Forget it, huh? What's your name?"

The guy definitely isn't human, that's pretty obvious (he thinks) so caution is still necessary, but Sam has learned that he can't go in guns blazing on people here. If he hunted the way he did back home he'd kill half the town.