Arven was quick to respond to true curiosity, and this young man had it — perhaps that was why he'd wandered over here to begin with.

"Yes", the traveller obliged. "In fact the entire city is a ruin, two thousand years old, towering and ornate, build into the slope of a great mountain flanked with obelisks. Traders from the Red Sea walked there, and turned Petra into the envy of Arabia. There's no place like it."