The vampire Katia holds only contempt for humans. She has no reason to spare David, whom she encounters digging up pre-apocalypse “artefacts” on the edges of the City. And yet she lets him go. Her very desire drives her away from him. But David has other ideas. A man with no mutant “gifts”, yet he is unafraid of either her superior strength or her vampire nature. Instead, he risks his life for a moment of her time, pursuing her relentlessly until Katia recognizes her own human passions, and her importance in the City’s past and future is revealed.