There are a thousand stories

in the city...I don't mean it's a thousand stories tall, I mean that there are a thousand tall tales, at least....nobody seems to remember who or what got this thing going in the first place, since it's been wandering for eons untold.....the City will swing down over decades towards the galactic center, do a dosey-doe, and then swing back out on a different elliptic through the spiral arms, so that over several thousand years it will pass through most of the whole thing....the whole of the Milky Way.  And of course there are the time-anomolies and matter-drift and dark energy currents to consider, so it really does wander a lot....you pretty much have to guess where and when it is, exactly.  But if you can find it, then you can probably find whatever it is in the galaxy you might be looking for, because somebody bought one cheap, and is willing to sell it dear, here in the City.  For example, one day I was riding in the big black car along the Street of Dreams in the EastSouthSide, when I saw a shop advertising Lost Loves.....Clearance Sale.....75% off today only......I told the car to pull over.....