“It was not spilled in vain, it was not burned in vain. The first term has arrived...” The tiger left. The words of the last prophecy have not yet been spoken, but the shadow of future changes has already covered the world. The dark magician Yuri, brought in by the Inquisition for a closed investigation, is trying to find the root cause of the impending disaster. However, knowing the answers is not enough. It is much more difficult to manage this knowledge. The action of the novel “Time of Desires” takes place shortly before the events described in the novel “The Sixth Watch” by Sergei Lukyanenko.