Clue gave a rare smile, watching his friend as he leafed through the alchemy book. He nodded, with quite a contended sigh. "I'll be staying at Valenduris's house all summer. I'll... report back on what that's like", he promised with some amusement.

A professor's house was always quite a mythical concept. For Professor Valenduris, Clue pictured either a poky cottage full of bubbling cauldrons and hanging herbs, or a sweeping manor house with threadbare rugs and secret passageways.