Dan looked over at Alex, then to Not-Dan.  "...nnnnnnoooooooooo?  We were out exploring, and fell into this cave, and from there we found this portal, a really long climb, a room with what was probably a zombie...we wanted to find a way out, and we weren't coming out the way that we got in, so we ended up where you guys were.  We had no intention of serving anyone, we just wanted to escape."  This did not sound good.  Not only were they both permanently female, but apparently they had signed up for some war nobody had ever heard of.