It is the distant future. After the ravages and catastrophes of time, humanity and the civilizations of Earth have changed almost beyond recognition. And in an isolated castle city amidst the vast wastelands of the Asian continent Divine Endurance lives, immortal. She is intelligent and elegant and heartless, just as she was meant to be. But they only made one of her, because they were too successful in making the ultimate cat. She is far too clever at slipping under the locked doors in her mind, so they never let her go. For millennia she has remained, with the last of the manufactured humans, imprisoned in the perfect city.