The eyes looked at you, and one eyebrow went up.  Then the eyeslit closed and you heard the voices again,  "Let her in, she's just arrived.  Can't let her spend the night out there in the wilderness.  She's clueless."<br/><br/>Then the brown eyed voice spoke again, "She can't stay here, there's no room!  You know the rules, no new people, no matter how uncorrupted."<br/><br/>Blue eyes voice was angry, "She won't stay but the night.  We can't let her stay out there.  I'm letting her in."<br/><br/>The sound of bolts being slid back sounded before the gate cracked open and an older looking guardsman waved you in quickly before slamming the door shut behind you.  You looked around and saw exactly what the other, younger guardsman had been talking about.  There was one single road leading through the fort.  You could see the back wall several hundred feet away from where you stood.  There was one single road leading from where you were to the center of town.  A small well at the middle was surrounded by several shops.  Around the shops and packed in tight were hundreds and hundreds of tiny houses.  The brick walls stacked against each other, shared walls for each home connecting to the next.   Tiny alley ways barely wide enough to walk down wormed through the homes and it was obvious that there was a premium on every inch of space inside the wooden palisade walls.  However from the inside you could see fired clay bricks lining the inside of the wooden pallisade.  You guessed that a fire here would be catastrophic, hence all the brick.<br/><br/>The older guardsman, dressed in a leather breastplate, a leather kilt of sorts, and not much else gave his spear to the younger gaurdsman.  "Come with me young lady," he said.  He led you through a maze of twisting cramped alley ways and then pushed open a door.  Leading you into a small two room dwelling with no windows he sighed and shrugged out of his breastplate.  "My name is Jonna, this is my home."<br/><br/>He gestured to two soft cushions near a hearth.  Then he moved to the hearth and uncovered an ember and set some logs on it.  The small fire started and he moved a pot on a hook over the flames.   Then he sat down on the cushion and spoke again.<br/><br/>"If you're really honestly new here, then there's a lot you should know if you plan on surviving.  But before I do, I need to ask you something.  You said you were with other people, and that you were 'looking for the portal to come here?'  We haven't seen any new faces lately other than yours, just so you know."  His face was openly and honestly puzzled, "But why would anyone want to come here in the first place?"<br/>