I always breezed past them, acknowledging that they were interesting in abstract but I wouldn't retain enough for it to actually colour the story. Mostly the s

I always breezed past them, acknowledging that they were interesting in abstract but I wouldn't retain enough for it to actually colour the story. Mostly the story conveys the things I care about (terrain/distance/etc) and knowing that cities c and f were actually quite close together wasn't important.