Enter the town

She would enter the town, Druuna decided. Even if it would turn out to be a fortress for some grand alliance of pirates or the base of an unusually successful warlord, she had little doubts that she would have to endure anything worse than being used as a whore for a while before managing to escape. And while she liked to tell herself that such a treatment was one which she would endure rather than enjoy, she was certain that she could through it without any permanent traumas.

Steering to the inner edge of the beach, Druuna walked towards the wall until she was only about twenty yards from it. Then she began to walk parallel with them, hoping to find some form of entrance. This brought her further inland, and it also conveyed to her the fact that the walls were quite extensive.

But after walking for almost a hundred yards, following the wall as it curved itself around the slope, Druuna came upon a simple dirt road, barely more than a cattle trail, which led up to the walls.

Where the cattle trail ended, the wall turned into a double protrusion of rectangular shapes, each of them looking at least forty feet long and almost ten feet wide, and while one of them was dark blue, the other one was bright red. Druuna recognized them as containers meant for storing large bulks of goods, and the ones that she had seen had had doors on both sides, but the doors on these were currently closed, offering her no way into the town.

A small cabin of some sort had been constructed upon the two containers out of old planks and plates of sheet metal, with a canvas roof. The contours of a few houses could be seen as they reached above the top of the walls, and her earlier reflection that they seemed to have been built with anything that was at hand was strengthened further.

Druuna hesitated for a little while, having second thoughts about going into the town, but then a cool wind came rolling in and hit her exposed skin.

Shivering from her sudden encounter with the coldness that she would have to endure if she opted for a night outside, Druuna stamped one foot into the ground in an attempt to keep her warmth, and then called out.

After her first call, there was no apparent reaction, so Druuna called out once again, aiming a loud ?Hello?!? at the cabin on the containers.

Finally, someone reacted to her calls in the form a of figure appearing from inside the cabin.