Carnival is the favorite entertainment of kings. The courtiers cover their faces and change to suit their mask. Sometimes all the base feelings - envy, hatred, anger - crawl out of her empty eye sockets. How interesting it is to watch this from the outside! A happy married couple suddenly breaks up into two frightened people. They don't trust each other anymore. And all because Columbine, Harlequin and Doctor Death are always nearby... Some kind of masquerade! But the mummers are real people, and their goal is material: to get the watch of the royal astrologer... The book was previously published under the title “Watches of the Royal Astrologer.”