No chance for escape, maybe, but to say Indy was interested would've been a big understatement nonetheless. Which day of the week was today? Towns meant some chance that the locals might help you, or at least give you information; they meant chances to barter.

"I think this is the fourth day I've been here," he replied. "How far away was the town, would you say? Close enough to reach on foot in a night's walk, or would you need some kind of transportation to get there?" The townspeople might well hit any wandering nutjobs on the head and send them back to Landel themselves, but there might be some impressionable townswoman who could put him up for the night at the price of a wink and a smile. At any rate, it was a more likely plan than any other Indy had had so far.