It all starts innocently enough. A picture here and there, a magazine before bed. And then one day you’re flipping through the glossy pages and you see it. A two page spread. You give a whistle, turn the magazine and take a closer look.
At first, that’s all it is. A library over coffee, a beach while filling out your taxes, a desert ruin on a work break. But then, one day, you see one that you can’t let alone. You stare at it, fascinated. It’s a marketplace in some distant and sun-drenched land, full of color and life. You can almost smell the spices. You idly check Wikipedia, and learn that the city has been where it is for thousands of years. Why, you think, how interesting. Your city has only been there for a few hundred.