Though the artifact conceit is less well developed than that of the truth-telling instrument in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, the fast-paced story augurs well for the last installment. The plot centers on the ramifications of their romance and the theft of Fafnir's Talon, a powerful artifact whose provenance is linked to the legendary Ring of the Nibelungs. The story revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups : the Night Watch, an organization dedicated to policing the actions of the Dark Othersand the Day Watch, which polices the actions of the Light Others. There she falls in love with Igor, who turns out to be a Light magician. Lukyanenko wrote the story in 1998 and the book was first published in Russia by AST in 1998. After Alisa, a Dark One, loses her powers in a minor confrontation with some Light Ones, she heads to the Crimea to recuperate at a girls' camp, where she feeds on children's nightmares. Lukyanenko imagines a parallel reality, where human history has been shaped by a centuries-old conflict between the Dark Ones and the Light Ones, magical beings whose existence is kept carefully hidden from humanity. , a major literary and cinematic success in Russia) portrays the epic supernatural struggle between good and evil from the point-of-view of the witch Alisa Donnikova. The morally ambiguous second volume in Lukyanenko's trilogy (after 2006's Night Watch
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