Heiji laughed. "Walkin' is nice and all, but it'd take you an awful long time to hoof it from one side of the city to the other."

Then he sobered a little. "But enough about that. You know a way out of here? Or do I have to start walkin'?" While he didn't mind talking a person's ear off under normal circumstances, these weren't exactly normal circumstances -- he wanted to get out of town and back home as soon as he could.