
So now the search was on for two individuals: le comte des Deux Chats and Madam Blukovsky, the woman who claimed to possess unearthly powers. The Queen’s agents, exhausted by her demands, in all honesty had given up hope on finding Monsieur le comte, GarGar. Instead, they were focusing most of their effort on digging up the elusive Madam.
It seemed as if nobody in the entire kingdom had even heard of this Blukovsky woman. To add to the mystery, her sole point of contact with the Queen was a handwritten note of unknown provenance. Instead of finding her, it was clear that the only option was to set a trap.