As soon as she releases him, he's running. Away, it doesn't matter where to. The point is that woman is terrifying, he's sure he gave her more coin than he should have, but when someone has a big-ass magical sword, you don't shortchange them.

As soon as he thinks he's out of her sight, he ducks into a narrow dark alley- more of a gap between buildings than an alley, and tries to catch his breath.

"Crazy foreigners."