I am trying to understand the notion of quasi-geodesic in Alexandrov space with curvature bounded below following [the Perelman-Petrunin paper][1]. I have two questions: 1) Is it true that the shortest geodesic is a quasi-geodesic? 2) Given a continuous path which is a union of two shortest geodesics with a common end. Under what conditions it is a quasi-geodesic? [1]: https://anton-petrunin.github.io/papers/qg_ams.pdf