bitch you are going to the Steppe 🤣🤣🤣

there are lifts built into the wall at a number of locations, occasionally opening to reveal new exiles heaped on the floor, unconscious or dead. lift-tenders take it upon themselves to live in shacks constructed around the lift doors (often set high up in the face of the wall, implying there was once architecture meant to receive them even before the shacks and scaffolding). the lift-tenders wait and care for new exiles (who can be of any age from children to the elderly) during a grace period in which they try to nurse any wounds/ailments and teach them fundamental aspects of living outside. after this, prospective guilds and employers and so on have a chance to take in desired individuals.

those who aren't wanted by anyone (such as Freija) are left to the mercy of the streets and the slavers, organ harvesters, and other unpleasant parties prowling about.

there are of course a number of glaring issues in this system.

also, notably, no one has succeeded in getting the lift to take anyone into City. they seem to possess sensors and refuse to budge until completely emptied.