The search for a natural person led to nothing. Kir and Milena nearly died in the wasteland, but Gelasius (not quite a human and not quite a robot) was following their trail. Now they knew the secret of their eternal youth. When they returned to the city of Negasymiy, nobody recognized Kir—even the boss could barely remember his name. But the trouble didn’t end there. In a city where crimes had never happened, Kir was attacked—and only when he was wounded did he learn the secret of his origin. What split the tolerantoids and polyhetes, who the kevlos are and wandering teachers of sannyas who, according to legend, were created by the natural person—and why did a robot in a dead city wait for Milena for hundreds of years? That wasn’t all the questions Kir wanted answers to, so he ran away…