Far away at the main entrance to the camp where the gate in the wooden wall was located, four guards stood watch.
The gate wasn't much and was just a reinforced section of the crude wooden wall that pulled aside slightly to allow people to pass by.
Two guards stood at the front along with a group of them inside the barracks that was located just a little inside the gates.
The two on the outside were leaning tiredly on their spears with their breath misting in the cold night air. Two more were perched above them on a small and hastily built wooden platform with their eyes scanning the dark plains beyond the flickering torchlight that illuminated the entrance.
Suddenly one of the guards on the platform tilted his head.
"Did you hear that?" he asked.
The guard beside him shifted his weight, looking over at him.
"Hear what?"
