Walls inherited
Cynin is lord of Lindes, holding the old Roman town of Lindum. His question brings Arthur’s company into the story: why are the farms emptying?
The back-cover premise offers a town whose crumbling walls must shelter people with a history of hostility between them. They have one store of grain. Those details establish the setting’s pressure without explaining how the people inside it will respond.
A place to read closely
Walls can define an inside and an outside, but the people within them still bring their earlier divisions. As you read, notice the relationship between physical shelter and the harder work of sharing it.