There's no way he could have walked all the way. That must have been those annoying transport bubbles that he's run into a couple times.

"It's lucky you ended up here, and not out in the middle of nowhere, huh?" Somebody in the crowd is smoking, and Wolfwood can't help turning his head in their direction, sucking in a deep breath. He's got to find some cigarettes here, if it kills him. "Things got weird recently, and I mean weird weird. A piece of advice, kid, you should keep water an' something to eat on you all the time, just in case one of those magic portals drops you out in the sands."